Here's the two-hundred ninth issue of COSS Weekly, the global commercial open source (COSS) company category newsletter, brought to you every weekend by the team at OSS Capital, creators and stewards of COSS Community and Open Core Summit.
We deliver only the most fresh 😋 news from the previous week in COSS across: Funding, Content, Jobs, Liquidity and $COSS (Public Markets).
Last week saw Sonar's acquisition of Tidelift, TikTok's embrace of open source, exciting opportunities with Cap and Plane, end-of-year updates from COSS companies, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS Funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
Vamsi Kurama: "Plane dominated 2024. @planepowers is set to make even bigger waves in 2025. We are just getting started Massive show begins in T-15 days" Link
Plane: "We are here, a month past our second birthday and right before a second full year is about to end. 2024 was great. We grew, we hired, we got customers, we got , but most of all, we got revenue PMF. Here's what 2024 looked like for everyone on Plane." Link
JJ: "The more you know." Link
const: "We'll never compete with OpenAI as a company - that model is perfected in Silicon Valley. Our only hope is to revolutionize the way we organize ourselves to solve problems with open protocols. But ... protocols are difficult, they add a level of complexity unseen in a normal corporate structure: adversaries, black hats, Sybil attacks --- things you don't see in a normal corporation. But when protocols click? They click in a way that no legal structure can match. Permissionlessness, speed, pure directional power. When aligned, protocol based incentives blast the corp out the water. Bitcoin is the first example. This is why we work with them. Cause we know that if we're going to usher in a better way for this technological revolution to be controlled, we need to be better, faster, and more powerful, not just more ethical. If you're in AI? If you're in crypto? Pivot to the intersection. We have a problem to solve for humanity." Link
JJ: "Last week @NeurIPSConf I asked @IlyaSut if humans should grant AI rights and whether cryptocurrency / Bittensor might be the right incentive mechanism to ensure we create AI with similar freedoms as us. Here's my audio with video of Ilya's replies." Link
WordPress: "State of the Word 2024" Link
Supabase: "Handy" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "did you know you can quickly see your teams timezone and availabilities with @calcom? app.cal.com/availability?t..." Link
Syed Balkhi: "WordPress powers 53.1% of the top websites according to @Cloudflare Year in Review It's incredible to see this, and I'm excited about all the new things coming in 2025. If you haven't watched the State of the Word by @photomatt - you should check it out the link below" Link
JJ: "Bittensor's new commit-reveal system prevents weight copying by encrypting validator scores until a future time, making it impossible for others to immediately see and copy weight settings. This ensures more honest and original scoring in the network. Big upgrade! github.com/opentensor/bit..." Link
Paul Copplestone --- e/postgres: "you can now create @calcom events directly from your @supabase database why would you do this? Say you're building an airline site: when a user purchases a flight you create an event in their calendar. All from Postgres" Link
AppFlowy: "SELF-HOST users, your input is invaluable Please let us know your thoughts by filling out this survey tally.so/r/wvqgv0" Link
François Chollet: "TikTok just open-sourced their recommender system framework (Monolith) -- and it uses Keras This means that nearly all the major recommender systems in the industry are built on Keras -- YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, Snap, X/Twitter, and many more (Grubhub...)" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- Tidelift: "Big news! Sonar has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Tidelift to enhance the security and resilience of open source software. Together, we're raising the bar for code quality and security. Read the blog post from our CEO Donald Fischer: bit.ly/41DkwwH" Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,158 jobs and 327 companies hiring! Link
- JJ: "We're hiring for multiple marketing roles @planepowers" Link
- Richie - oss/acc: "@Cap is currently hiring for multiple roles. -Founding Designer -Founding Sales Lead -Founding SEO Lead we're 100% remote. Our goal is to build the world's greatest screen recording and sharing app. In 2025, we'll get there. DM me if you're interested!" Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets down 0.66% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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