Here's the two-hundred eleventh 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 an end-of-year award for OpenBB, a 2024 recap from Cal.com, discussions on Namma Yatri, the state of enterprise VC, AI news, a project on plastics, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS Funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
JJ: "2025. Contribute to open source" Link
JJ: "Guess what? @NammaYatri (powered by @HyperSwitchIO) eliminates BOTH of these extractive middlemen in a single shot." Link
OpenBB: "OpenBB was named the "2024 Best New Quant Research & Analytics Product" by Rebellion Research rebellionresearch.com/2024-best-new-..." Link
JJ: "Donate to Signal!" Link
Signal: "A big heartfelt thank you from all of us at Signal to every person who has ever used Signal, gotten your friends to make the switch, and donated to support our work. It is truly an honor to build Signal for you." Link
Juspay Hyperswitch: "@HyperSwitchIO Wishes You a Very Happy New Year 2025" Link
WordPress: "As we begin 2025, let's look at the recent State of the Word event in Tokyo, Japan. Much of the future of WordPress was on display. If you missed it, we have you covered. Check it out here: wordpress.org/state-of-the-w..." Link
Christopher Nguyen ⽗: "SemiKong & Llama ftw! tomshardware.com/tech-industry/..." Link
Vamsi Kurama: "What's Plane? Plane (@planepowers) is a work management system that's more than just project management or an issue tracking software tool simply put, Plane lets you: - manage projects - build products - operate workflows - execute strategies - optimize resources - stack knowledge with integrated data & intelligence to help you work better" Link
George Hotz: "Why is the top performing open source CPU (XiangShan) Chinese? Where's the American project to beat this? Gonna lose so hard if America keeps investing in scams, instead invest in things like this." Link
Cal.com: "2024 was a BIG year for us! From AI-powered scheduling to sleek new integrations and features, we've been busy making your scheduling smoother than ever. Catch all the highlights and updates in our latest blog post: go.cal.com/2024recap" Link
tobi lutke: "Such a good project by @natfriedman and team. There was a lot of speculation on this topic and now there is rigorous methodology for testing and a ton of already interesting data. This will lead to lots of improvements over time." Link
Luke Green (∞/21m): "Just logged into to update my @umbrel and my my it's beautiful! Kudos, the UI is fantastic!" Link
Ed Sim: "Hot off the press: "What's in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #427" The 15 year startup journey and implications for founders and investors whatshotit.vc/p/whats-in-ent..." Link
JJ: "Strong agree tbh.. "VC fund timelines should be lengthened from standard 10 years to 12 years or longer. The typical length of fund commitment is usually 10 years for venture capital funds after which venture investors have to ask their LPAC for a series of 1-year extensions. The real question is are we kidding ourselves to think we can return the capital when it takes 15 years to IPO for your winners. This, of course, has huge implications for LPs or investors in VC funds as they are locked up longer in illiquid investments."" Link
Didier Lopes: "Over the Christmas break, I decided to explore the world of fine-tuning while assessing the quality of open-source models that can run locally. This exploration was particularly important for me, as we frequently discuss with prospects the possibility of integrating local AI agents into OpenBB to avoid reliance on third-party vendors. To make this experiment practical and engaging, I needed a well-defined use case. My objective was straightforward: build an AI agent that processes Telegram messages through a local LLM, gathers context from various sources (OpenBB, Perplexity, Grok), and automatically posts content to Bluesky." Link
JJ: "Bittensor's talent + innovation output asymmetry vs rest-of-world (all closed labs combined) is going to be insane... no corp. has a monopoly on talent. No single corp. on earth can compete with the level of talent that open source and incentives can marshal. Bitcoin already proved that incentives can produce a supercomputer thousands of times larger than all cloud providers combined." Link
Guillermo Rauch: "Some engineering principles I live by: ✓ Make it work, make it right, make it fast ✓ Progressive disclosure of complexity ✓ Minimize the number of concepts & modes ✓ Most 'flukes' aren't... your tech just sucks ✓ Feedback must be given to users instantly ✓ Maximize user exposure hours ✓ Demo your software frequently to fresh eyes ✓ Sweat every word of product copy you render ✓ You're never done working on performance ✓ You're never done. Software ages like milk, not wine ✓ Visualizing traces of time is the best way to optimize it ✓ Ship frequently and strive to build in public ✓ Errors must have globally unique codes & hyperlinks ✓ Red is not enough to signal "error" (8% of men have red-green color blindness)" Link
JJ: "'Your margin is open source opportunity' @nammayatri. No rider fees. Driver gets paid 100% fare. Instant payouts. Growing 15X faster than Uber in early days. Scaling globally. Backed by Google from seed. Fully open source core." Link
JJ: "Here's top 3 GDP (PPP) ranks by 2045 assuming growth rates of 3% for (generous), 5% for (consensus) and 10% for (realistic)... India strongly tracking to be most powerful economic nation on earth, adding $85 + TRILLION." Link
Matt Mullenweg: "I support the mad king: manton.org/2024/12/21/i-s..." Link
//Kalos: "On this episode of @AIWayfinder agent wars..." Link
Barry Silbert: "Yuma is on fire with the launch of the SEVENTH subnet out of our accelerator program, all built on Bittensor $TAO" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,056 jobs and 328 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 2.81% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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