Here's the two-hundred twenty-first 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 $COSS (Public Markets).
Last week saw Plane's Pi Day launch announcements, updates from Appflowy, Godot, & Latent Holdings, a new Deepseek/ChatGPT competitor, JJ's trip to India, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
JJ: "The new @planepowers website is a work of ART. Unblock progress. Unlock peace." Link
Plane: "Pi Day Launch 5/7: Self-hosted users, this one's for you! More deployment options are here. - Docker Swarm: Orchestrate containerized Plane across multiple hosts - Portainer: Manage your Plane deployment through an intuitive UI - Coolify: Simplify self-hosting with this developer-friendly platform" Link
JJ: "Here's an impromptu blackboard (via Hagoromo chalk ) I drew today explaining the core fundamentals of Bitcoin ($BTC) vs. Bittensor ($TAO). Long talk-track required given my scribbles. Recorded version coming soon. Thanks @vamsi_kurama for the inspiration." Link
Godot Engine: "Godot XR Update The Godot XR team has released the Godot Meta Toolkit, along with updates to XR Tools, the OpenXR Vendors plugin, and many fixes and improvements. Read the full update: godotengine.org/article/godot-..." Link
JJ: "Real-time Bittensor API metrics have arrived. Today we're thrilled to launch our TAO.app API --- @latentholdings continuously shipping as per usual. api.tao.app/docs" Link
Didier Lopes: "A bit late notice, but... I wrote a post about the similarities between @BlackRock's Aladdin copilot and OpenBB's one. It turns out that the design choices we made 1 year ago are being validated today. I call it the $10 trillion dollar validation. The main difference is that you can run OpenBB on-prem and fully own the data (including the prompts) and bring a custom agent so everything runs in your infra. Apart from the fact that we are operating with less than 1% of the resources. More details on this comparison can be found on my newsletter tomorrow morning." Link
AppFlowy: "AppFlowy Web (appflowy.com) updates: You can now embed videos and play them directly within a document. AI Chat is now available in the web app. Chat with AI to get inspiration, format responses as tables, bullet points, numbered lists, or even images --- and create a beautiful doc in seconds." Link
Piotr Kulpinski: "Last week, @ossalternative turned 1 year old . It's been a fantastic journey growing this project. Some stats: ~500k visitors (2M views) ~400 open-source tools published ~$20,000 earned so far ($1,500 MRR) Fun fact: I almost sold the project for $12k last May" Link
Steven Tey: "Last month, we had ~1M links on @dubdotco. This month, we're at 33M links -- a 33x increase With PlanetScale Metal, we were able scale comfortably without having to worry about any latency / IO bottlenecks." Link
JJ: "Just flew through @KochiAirport for the second time during my visit with @hoppscotch_io founder @liyasthomas .. pretty awesome that this is the world first fully solar powered airport. More details below ." Link
JJ: "Crypto investment advisor AI in your pocket. @AIWayfinder" Link
JJ: "Anthropic is fully aligned with "Open"AI on regulatory capture. Full stop." Link
Marfuen: "Vanta -> @TryCompAI" Link
Paras Chopra: "Announcing India ML tracker, an open source @lossfunk project built by @HiSohan to track papers accepted at top AI/ML conferences by Indian authors." Link
JJ: "Today we're thrilled to launch @LatentHoldings' total revamp of TAO.app --- the leading realtime Bittensor explorer with rich analytics covering full spectrum data across all subnets and commodities. New features and improvements are shipping weekly. $TAO" Link
Bailey Pumfleet: "Brutal truth about our first year... Everyone sees Cal.com now and assumes we had it figured out. Here's what actually happened: - Made bad hires - Broke production many times - Had no runway at one point - Rewrote core code numerous times - Wasted money on random endeavors But we kept shipping. Kept fixing things. Kept going. Figured it out along the way (still figuring it out today)." Link
JJ: "Most important cryptocurrency milestones: January 2009 (Bitcoin Genesis) July 2015 (Ethereum Launch) January 2021 (Bittensor Launch) March 2025 (@AIWayfinder Launch)" Link
JJ: "Bay Area has the highest concentration of talkers on the planet. Hyderabad and Bangalore have the highest concentration of doers on the planet." Link
NIK: "Baidu released a reasoning model at par with DeepSeek that outperforms ChatGPT 4.5 at 1% of the price btw" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,656 jobs and 331 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
- $COSS markets down 3.03% last week
- Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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