Here's the two-hundred eighteenth 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 Bittensor launch on Coinbase, Liquid and Arc release the Evo 2 model, updates for Cap, Parallel, RustDesk, and OpenBB, jobs with Plane, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
- JJ: "When we started, investing in open source founders was extremely niche. It is now mainstream. There is not a single VC in the world without at least several open source founders in their portfolio. What is still missing is the same conviction we have ... absolute dedication." Link
📚 COSS Content
JJ: "Forces Of Nature founders everyone should watch closely: @vamsi_kurama + @viharkurama Thrilled visit and work closely with them in Hyderabad every quarter this year, starting next month." Link
Tom Dörr: "Open-source driver assistance system for cars" Link
JJ: "When forces are in full effect: Centralized open source will always lag Decentralized open source ... in the same way that closed source always lags open source." Link
Didier Lopes: "just got asked about integrating FRED with OpenBB sharing step-by-step instructions in how to do so below" Link
Jim Keller: "you build value by having a great goal and a team that loves working to the goal. Intel built the fastest cpus on the best process. this is not unlocking shareholder value, it's a fire sale x.com/realmemes6/sta... it makes me sad" Link
Richie - oss/acc: "it's official. @Cap Launch Week is happening next week. 5 days of new feature announcements every single day. all 5 of these features are our top 5 most requested since I started building Cap here's 2 seconds from the 1min 15s launch video." Link
Coinbase Assets: "Bittensor (TAO) is now live on coinbase.com & in the Coinbase iOS & Android apps. Coinbase customers can log in to buy, sell, convert, send, receive or store these assets. coinbase.com/price" Link
Patrick Collison: "New from @arcinstitute: Evo 2, the largest (by training compute) biology ML model ever, and one of the largest-ever open source ML models in any category. Evo 2 is a foundation model trained on 9T DNA base pairs that learns a lot of fundamental details about life. A few examples of why it's cool: Evo 2 seems to learn about pathogenic human mutations. Despite having just a single human genome in the training set..." Link
JJ: "Huge ship from @MichaelPoli6 and @Massastrello at @LiquidAI_ in collaboration with @arcinstitute." Link
JJ: "Read out manifesto: plane.so/manifesto" Link
Plane: "Plane makes task-tracking simple. No configuration mazes. No opinionated blockers. Endless customization options. Give it a free try! Plane.so" Link
JJ: "The speed at which @planepowers is delivering enterprise compliance capabilities is faster than any open source startup I've worked with in my career. plane.so/blog/plane-win..." Link
The Repository: "WordPress Sentiment Defies X Drama, Remains Strong Across Platforms therepository.email/wordpress-sent..." Link
dinislam: "important to emphasize that this would never happen with @daylightco if daylight co ever disappears the devices remain fully functional and will get community support via @daylight_hacker" Link
JJ: "Took delivery of my @daylightco DC-1 earlier today. Super special experience. Live Paper display is very snappy at 60fps and renders everything beautifully. Monotone really focuses my use on productive tasks." Link
JJ: "Trust, privacy, user influence and speed of improvement are impossible for closed to match when the competition is fully open source." Link
Cal.com: "Never miss a sales lead or support opportunity with Instant Meetings! Enable your team to jump on calls instantly when needed. Perfect for sales reps and customer support pros who need to act fast! Learn more: go.cal.com/rBellil" Link
Steven Tey: "Genuinely excited by the upcoming features/products we're gonna be launching at @dubdotco in the coming weeks The team has been shipping like crazy...stay tuned!" Link
OpenBB: "We're excited to announce that our CEO, @didier_lopes , will be speaking at the Investor Financial (@iimag) Technology Forum Winter Workshop & Automating Alpha event on Feb 24th. Didier will join the panel on "Autonomous Agents: The Next Step in AI Applications," diving into the future of AI-driven workflows in institutional finance. This event convenes Buy Side industry leaders to shape the conversation around next-generation financial technology." Link
Parallel: "Check out the latest updates in Patch 0.63, packed with exciting new features and improvements. Learn more at the link below //" Link
JJ: "Apple does NOT equal privacy. It equals invasion. We need next-generation smartphones to be FULLY open source, across the board... @nothing can be the right foundation in this direction --- something for @getpeid to consider." Link
rustdesk: "Release 1.3.8. github.com/rustdesk/rustd..." Link
Didier Lopes: "BlackRock (Aladdin) shared their Copilot yesterday in a presentation - the interface looks very similar to OpenBB. Which is good, because validates what we have been building for a few years but with a team of 15 instead of thousands. Should I do a livestream next week on how to build a custom agent that runs locally on your machine and integrate that to OpenBB workspace" Link
JJ: "Scale of ambition is inversely correlated with measure of achievement. True greatness creates negative equity in contentment. Truly great founders experience achievement as compound interest - each breakthrough begets new battlefields, every talent upgrade highlights missing puzzle pieces, and "10X potential" becomes a moving target. Mediocre founders operate with amortized ambition, taking premature victory laps at easily replicable milestones while their vision ossifies around prefabricated ceilings. Here's a good example of greatness that illustrates quite well what I'm stalling about here --- @masason :" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin: "Never buy a SaaS product owned by Private Equity unless you have to Only exception: if the founder is still CEO Why: - Price increases out of the blue - Lose any real customer success - Innovation slows down or even ends - Support usually terrible And especially: - Near Impossible to cancel" Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,617 jobs and 330 companies hiring! Link
- JJ: "Fastest growing open source company globally is hiring across several critical roles -- join the future of work! @planepowers jobs.ashbyhq.com/plane" Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
- $COSS markets down 3.34% last week
- Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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