Here's the two-hundred fourteenth 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 Deepseek's breakthrough for open-source AI, COSS companies in the awards spotlight, project updates, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
Steven Tey: "Excited to share that @dubdotco has been nominated for a @ProductHunt Golden Kitty award! Here's the link to upvote → d.to/ph/award Would really appreciate some support" Link
JJ: "We are seeing incredible momentum @openbb_finance. Important to note that OBB is not retail focused and our customers are hedge funds, multi-asset investment firms, institutional capital managers and the like." Link
JJ: "18 days ago.. "Open"AI is really just playing catch up to actually open source AI." Link
Derek Lim: "Excited to share our new 7B LLM @LiquidAI_ . Strong evals on diverse tasks (including several evals from the synthetic arena that I lead), long context strength at low memory cost, and edge-device / on-prem deployment options for customers. Great work from the team :)." Link
Jim Fan: "We are living in a timeline where a non-US company is keeping the original mission of OpenAI alive - truly open, frontier research that empowers all. It makes no sense. The most entertaining outcome is the most likely. DeepSeek-R1 not only open-sources a barrage of models but also spills all the training secrets. They are perhaps the first OSS project that shows major, sustained growth of an RL flywheel..." Link
Dub.co: "We now have in-app guides on how to get started with Dub Conversions. Depending on your tech stack, you can choose between: ◆ Auth providers like @clerkdev, @supabase, @authjs etc. ◆ Payment providers like @stripe, @shopify Excited to see what you build!" Link
Kevin Xu: "American (closed)AGI Chinese (open)AGI" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "wow @BaileyPumfleet and i were selected as makers of the year producthunt.com/golden-kitty-a..." Link
flo merian: "upvoted @dubdotco as best open-source product of the year on @producthunt" Link
Richie - oss/acc: "something cool... @Cap has been nominated for a Golden Kitty award in the Open Source category" Link
Didier Lopes: "We have been nominated for the 2024 Product Hunt Award in the category of Finance Tech. It would mean the world if you can support OpenBB! Link below" Link
Dac: "If you're building a developer-focused startup, take a close look at how @dubdotco operates. Turning something as messy as conversions into a well-documented, plug-and-play experience requires immense planning and attention to detail." Link
Steven Tey: "Fun fact: The architecture behind Dub Conversions is actually inspired by the AARRR model: ◆ Acquisition (click) ◆ Activation (lead) ◆ Retention (customer insights) ◆ Referral ( ) ◆ Revenue (sale) Instead of tracking every user interaction, we boiled it down to what matters for business." Link
Plane: "First release of the year and it's a big one, much like our last few releases TL;DR ↓ - Project Overviews - Timezones - Stacked Notifications - Four new language translations More ↓" Link
Steven Tey: "A great example of what you can do with @dubdotco Conversions -- tracking signups and sales from QR codes. Here's a demo I did at my @WordCampUS talk last year We gave the audience a Dub QR code, and the first 5 signups (tracked in real-time) got some Dub swag" Link
Gregor Zunic: "OpenAI operator is cool. Wouldn't it be nice if it was open source? We built Browser Use - 100% OSS version you can use today for free Link below ↓" Link
Andy Yen: "Authoritarianism is a plague that blights the world and it's important that we fight it. Usually we do it from the shadows, but last year, the Compiler visited us, and we finally shared some details about the work we do in this area @ProtonPrivacy: compiler.news/proton-vpn-ven..." Link
Han Xiao: "deepseek's holding 幻方量化 is a quant company, many years already,super smart guys with top math background; happened to own a lot GPU for trading/mining purpose, and deepseek is their side project for squeezing those gpus" Link
Anjney Midha: "From Stanford to MIT, deepseek r1 has become the model of choice for America's top university researchers basically overnight" Link
Beff -- e/acc: "It's almost as if the big labs wanted to hyperstition big compute scaling as the ultimate moat to warrant raising more capital but then came DeepSeek R1 as a massive vibe check that destroyed their reality distortion field" Link
JJ: "It's not unclear whatsoever. GPU compute is the fastest depreciating investment being made in technology over the last 30 years since Sun/Oracle days... and the exact same people involved in those insanely capital inefficient taxes are driving the same grift decades later (@vkhosla + @larryellison)." Link
Gregor Zunic: "Did you know that OpenAI Operator is actually NOT the State of the art web agent? @browser_use achieves 89% on WebVoyager dataset What are you going to build today?" Link
Laτenτ Holdings: ": Today we're thrilled to announce our founding team represents the core open source dev leads for the Bittensor SDK, Python toolchain, CLI and Docs assets. Open source contribution will remain a fundamental and permanent focus of ours going forward!" Link
JJ: "Super proud of the team we are building @latentholdings ... the future of Bittensor is extremely bright." Link
Richie - oss/acc: "we recently shipped an update to @Cap's editor playback decoder, reducing decoding time from 4.83s for 916 frames, to 0.69s - a huge 85.72% reduction! as demonstrated by the amazing @brendonovichdev" Link
Tom Dörr: "Open-source personal finance app" Link
Electronics Lab: "don't laugh when you say let's make WordPress great again. WordPress is really great and there is no competitor. WordPress can also be used as coding framework for web applications. you can do almost everything. developer.wordpress.org learn.wordpress.org" Link
Tom Dörr: "Open-source screen recording tool" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,483 jobs and 328 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 2.74% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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