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COSS Weekly #215

Here's the two-hundred fifteenth 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 Bluesky reach 30 million users and 1 billion posts 🚀, Deepseek shake up markets, innovations in open-source companies at Plane and Cal.com, updates from Umbrel and Dub, and more!

Enjoy!


💰 COSS Funding

No COSS funding announcements this week.


📚 COSS Content

  • JJ: "Bittensor is showing us what the potentially perfect form of direct democracy (dd) could look like. Since @pmarca was crapping on dd's earlier on @lexfridman, I'll say a few things in defense of dd's: How about open source itself? By far the most successful form of dd! Massive success. Runs the freaking world. How about them apples? In 2019, Bittensor ($TAO) was created by former Google Brain engineer Jacob Steeves (@const_reborn). Jake believed a decade ago (before everything) about the critical need for a fully decentralized and permissionless system ..." Link

  • Vihar Kurama: "three major releases in the last 7 days on both cloud and self-hosted editions of @planepowers. - Teamspaces - Epics - Project overview - New home and stickies - Language support - Stacked notification - and many more plane.so/changelog/cloud" Link

  • JJ: "Open source always ruins the day and saves the day at the same time. This isn't new." Link

  • Umbrel: "All your files. Under your roof. Introducing Files on umbrelOS. Create, upload, and organize --- just like you're used to, but on your own home cloud. No monthly fees, no Big Tech, no distant servers. Arriving in umbrelOS 1.4 (February '25). Public beta out rolling out today." Link

  • François Chollet: "Any AI technique that is less data-efficient and energy-efficient than human intelligence will inevitably be replaced by something better in due time. Data-intensive and compute-intensive techniques can only be temporary, like the room-size computers of the 1950s." Link

  • Chris Aniszczyk (@cra@macaw.social): ""Why Is the Llama License Not Open Source?" shujisado.org/2025/01/27/why..." Link

  • Smit: "Contrary to their claim there is no Private Ai in venice.ai All Inference requests go to their Central Server in plain text, zero encryption or privacy. All the received buffers are in plain text as well. Verify it yourself by checking the Network Tab in chrome." Link

  • daylight: "Use Cases (no, it's not just a heavier Kindle)" Link

  • James Woodman: "In the last 14 months, there have been two "black swan" events in AI 1. Sam Altman's temporary OpenAI ouster revealed the fragility of centralized power structures 2. Deepseek R1's release showcased open-source AI's ability to integrate and spread faster than closed-source competitors Both have massively benefited $TAO and the entire open-source AI movement. Every centralized misstep and new model release only makes Bittensor stronger" Link

  • Wayfinder Foundation: "Taking core concepts from the Wayfinder whitepaper and sharing short explainer videos. Wayfinder Graph emerges from a comprehensive combination of unique Wayfinding Paths and nodes." Link

  • OpenRouter: "Try out the first decentralized inference provider live on OpenRouter One 103B parameter model, Rogue Rose, available for free now." Link

  • Steven Tey: "Bitly will now start showing ads on their links and QR codes Meanwhile at @dubdotco, you get: ◆ Powerful real-time analytics + better UI/UX ◆ Over 5x more links per month ◆ NO ADS If you're still using Bitly, I have a genuine question: Why?" Link

  • bluesky: "Bluesky is fast approaching both 30M users and 1B posts! Join here: bsky.app/download" Link

  • Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "i wrote an article why at @calcom we "sold out" and got rid of our sales department in favour of a "product specialist" team read below cal.com/blog/sold-out-..." Link

  • OpenRouter: ".@LiquidAI_'s new models are taking off Great at English, Arabic, and Japanese" Link

  • Vamsi Kurama: "Major update: Redefining Our Core with Work items We've got some news that marks a significant change in how we approach work in @planepowers. This is something we've been thinking about and can't wait to share with you. But first, a little backstory. Why are we making this change? Agile has completely transformed the way software is built ..." Link

  • JJ: "GitHub trending today is chalked full of @deepseek_ai ... and one cameo by @OSSCapital / @Maybe." Link

  • ahmetb: "Published a blog about common mistakes beginners make developing Kubernetes controllers (especially using controller-runtime) and how to write scalable and production-grade controllers." Link

  • Josh Pigford: "just dropped 50 new paid early access invites to @maybe and...they're going like HOT CAKES. (these lock you in at a massively discounted annual price...forever) app.maybefinance.com/early-access" Link

  • Steven Tey: "Our analytics infra at @dubdotco currently tracks 25M+ clicks/mo (growing 20% MoM). Wanna learn more about how we built this infra? Our friends at @tinybirdco wrote a phenomenal article detailing our Analytics Playbook. Link below" Link

  • JJ: "Really impressive work by @DLawee (first CMO of Google, founder of @CapitalG), @shibshib89 (Bittensor co-founder) and @Old_Samster + team @CrucibleLabs... Bittensor is on an exponential growth path and the ecosystem + community is stronger than ever." Link

  • JJ: "Excited to head down to @StanfordLaw this afternoon to give a lecture on commercial open source and Bittensor for law students. Thanks for the invite by Clint Smith (@discord CLO)." Link

  • Maybe Finance: "Below is a 30-day plan of quick, self-contained financial "to-dos," each designed to take 10 minutes or less. Every day offers a simple action step to help you build better money habits. Day 1: Download and Review Your Bank Statement ..." Link

  • Bindu Reddy: "In two months the open source community will make R1 5x faster and 30% more performant Yes, that should be enough to overtake o3 and be #1 on the leaderboard!!" Link

  • Umbrel: "DeepSeek-R1. Now running locally on your Umbrel. Yes, you can now self-host open source AI models like R1, Llama, and more on your home cloud --- thanks to @ollama and @OpenWebUI. Download Open WebUI and Ollama from the Umbrel App Store to get started." Link

  • Namma Yatri: "@nammayatri remains committed to serving both our drivers and customers in Chennai---now more than ever. While some services face disruptions, we're here, operating as usual, with a commitment to fair pricing, driver support, and overall welfare. Our values have always been about transparency, and we're staying true to that promise. Join us today---take the leap and make Namma Yatri your trusted ride partner. Together, we're building a community of fair rides and supporting our drivers every step of the way. #FairPricing #DriverSupport #NammaYatri #TransparentRides #CommunityDriven #ChennaiBoycott #SupportDrivers" Link

  • JJ: "I hope this starts happening GLOBALLY! The answer is @nammayatri." Link

  • Tristan | Decentralized Health: "Apple tells you to never hold your cell phone on your body or next to your head due to RF radiation. They do all of the "Safety tests" on a 6' 2'' 220lb male bio-dummy and use safety guidelines that haven't been updated since 1996. No fiction, just facts." Link

  • Tom Dörr: "Open-source document signing tool" Link

  • Tai-Danae Bradley: "10 years ago today, I launched the Math3ma blog. At the time, I wasn't sure the site would resonate with anyone, but I've been amazed by all that's happened over the past decade! To celebrate, here's a new post on category theory and language models math3ma.com/blog/magnitude..." Link

  • Zichen Wang: "an interview with Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek which just rocketed to the frontier of LLMs and shocked the AGI industry. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/r9zZaEgqAa_l..." Link

  • Bluesky: "30M users <> 1B posts. bluesky milestone achieved this week" Link

  • Rotimi Best: "the products that really take off through open source solve a fundamental business/developer problem

    @calcom - time/scheduling

    @polar_sh - payment

    @supabase - database

    @documenso - signing

    @dubdotco - links

    @unkeydev - api security

    @formbricks - surveys

    @triggerdotdev - background jobs

    @twentycrm - CRM

    @inboxzero_ai - email

    @appflowy - workspace (notion alternative)

    @cap - screen recording

    @maybe - finance

    @planepowers - project management" Link


💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)

  • Tsarathustra: "NVIDIA stock has seen the biggest single-day market cap loss in history, with nearly $600 billion in value lost" Link
  • ASML: "$ASML expects 2025 total net sales to be between €30 billion and €35 billion, with a gross margin between 51% and 53%." Link

🛠️ COSS Jobs

  • 5,412 jobs and 329 companies hiring! Link

📊 $COSS - Public Markets

  • $COSS markets up 3.23% last week

  • Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin

Koyfin market data

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