Here's the two-hundred tenth 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 Gumroad's open-source roadmap for 2025, reactions to DeepSeek's model milestone, and more end-of-year updates from COSS companies.
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS Funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
Laτenτ Holdings: "We will never do side-deals with subnet teams to rake-back and introduce perverse incentives in the Bittensor ecosystem. All incubated / accelerated subnets supported by Latent will exclusively be incentivized by our validator assigning weight on the merits of our subjective allocation decisions. We will never do any side deals with subnet teams to further milk or acquire more incentive beyond what will be provided by the dTAO alpha token of a subnet we fairly and permissionlessly validate / stake to. Positive sum or bust." Link
JJ: "DeepSeek: A Story of Chinese Technical Idealism @deepseek_ai: one of China's seven large language model companies, has emerged as a unique player in the AI landscape through its commitment to technical innovation and research-focused approach. The company gained prominence after releasing DeepSeek V2, which achieved unprecedented cost efficiency by reducing inference costs to just 1 yuan per million tokens, about 1/70th of GPT-4 Turbo's cost..." Link
JJ: "The (open source!!) Uber of India is growing very fast... zero commission, 100% of the fare goes to the driver. They also open the core metrics! Super awesome work by @juspay team. @nammayatri" Link
JJ: "Bitcoin is a deterministic consensus mechanism (Nakamoto) tightly-coupled to one deterministic incentive mechanism: SHA-256 hashes (proof of hash work) producing a cryptographically verifiable representation of money. Bitcoin replaces / upgrades capital. $BTC Bittensor is a probabilistic consensus mechanism (Yuma) loosely-coupled to many user-specified incentive mechanisms (subnets): continuously (proof of useful work) improving AI data, pre-training runs, inference optimizations, storage, compute, agents and more..." Link
JJ: "The future is open source. The past is closed source." Link
Matt Mullenweg: "SQLite is one of the most interesting open source projects ever." Link
Sahil Lavingia: "Anti-Work's open sourcing schedule: Today: Shortest.com January: Iffy.com February: Helper.ai March: Flexile.com April: Gumroad.com This is a bet on AGI for software engineering coming in 2025. Why in :" Link
upbound: "What a year it's been! 2024 was all about innovation, collaboration, and growth. From product breakthroughs like the Query API to hosting hands-on events like 'Level Up with @crossplane_io,' we're shaping the future of cloud computing. Recap here buff.ly/3P5MvOk" Link
Hoppscotch: "The year's almost over, but we're not slowing down. The final release of 2024 is here ! Introducing Release v2024.12.0, where we've doubled down on improving your API development and testing experiences even better with Hoppscotch . Let's take a look at the updates we've rolled out .." Link
KafleG: "WordPress powers 43.6% of websites today, up from 42.8% at the same time last year. Yearly data, 2013- 17.4% 2014- 21.0% 2015- 23.3% ..." Link
cookedstew: "Cost of software is going to zero. "Your margin is my opportunity" I often wonder how safe the S&P500 is." Link
OpenBB: "2024 was a great year, thanks to our amazing community, tireless team, and incredible investors, advisors, and partners. Here's a glimpse of everything that happened this year at OpenBB: Community Growth - Reached 34,000 stars on GitHub, being the #1 open-source project in Finance..." Link
Kevin Xu: "Beg to differ DeepSeek's progress is direct evidence that US export control is working Imagine if there were no export control at all? Where would the US-China AI race be? Every AI model startup founder in China laments the lack of GPU access..." Link
MIT CSAIL: "Happy birthday to Linus Torvalds, the father of #Linux: tinyurl.com/35wzynxz Image via Steve Double/Camera Press/Redux" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,210 jobs and 328 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets down 1.54% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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