Here's the one-hundred twenty-fourth 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 π news from the previous week in COSS across: Funding, Content, Jobs, Liquidity and $COSS (Public Markets).
Last week sawΒ the open-sourcing of the Twitter algorithm, $30M in funding announcements from Hygraph, the unveiling of a COSS AI music company, reactions to AI developments, and milestones across the space.
Enjoy!
π° COSS Funding: $30M
- Hygraph, a content management system, announced their $30M Series B led by One Peak Partners.Β LinkΒ
- JJ: "I'm an instant pass on any startup that just wraps OpenAI. Zero differentiation over time. Building your solution / app on your own models that you control, train and tune yourself? Good."Β Link
- VCs continue to pour dollars into generative AIΒ https://t.co/YI0JH7WyPpΒ byΒ @kyle_l_wiggersΒ (TechCrunch).Β Link
π COSS Content
Naval: "The biggest near-term question in AI: Will open-source LLMs with decentralized training be competitive with closed-source and centralized LLMs?"Β Link
Richard Socher: "I think the open source community needs to start incorporating the concepts of * open source training data * open source human feedback collection * open source weights With LLMs it will soon be less about the code than the training data."Β Link
JJ: "170~ contributors, 5,300~ commits, 40,000~ stars, hundreds of thousands of deployments, millions of users... all from zero a couple years ago. Managed by a tiny elite team of 4~ people. By the power of open source,Β @rustdeskΒ is the fastest growing VDI π₯Β https://t.co/ifepFPYpLT"Β Link
JJ: "Cool to see SO MANY open source llama implementations popping up... π¦ π₯Β https://t.co/PZbGPX3nc9"Β Link
AK π€ in SF for the Open-Source AI meetup: "Will be at theΒ @huggingfaceΒ SF Open-Source AI Meetup this Friday at 6pm PST, over 2000 people registered π₯ join here:Β https://t.co/ZOlyVdzHsx"Β Link
Open Source Startup Podcastπ: "E79 of the Open Source Startup Podcast is UPπΒ @amanda_robsΒ &Β @tnachenΒ talk withΒ @oktetohqΒ CEOΒ @rberrellezaΒ about spinning up production-grade dev environments & the challenges building w/ Kubernetes Check it outπ§Β https://t.co/eV7KEUXjER"Β Link
DeSci Labs: "We've open-sourced the code behind #DeSci Nodes! Join us in building the future of science.Β https://t.co/jAtQLPbp8w"Β Link
JJ: "Who's going to pushΒ @godotengineΒ over the 60,000 star milestone ??? π«Β https://t.co/BRTUoGu0N7Β https://t.co/1KpcKqjEK5"Β Link
Liu Liu: "In the rising tide of privatize models / pause trainings for safety reasons, I am trying to make an argument that the broadest access to the most cutting-edge LLMs is the less risky path:Β https://t.co/SbE7pUS1E6"Β Link
Chad Hurley: "OpenAI: We need more regulation! (aka let's make this a monopoly!) Competition: Yes!.. plus a 6 month pause. (aka let us catch up!) Everyone's concern for your safety is really a fight for control... to control it, to control you. Good night pawns!"Β Link
JJ: "STRONG DISAGREE. Absolutely not signing this.Β https://t.co/69rnGBBrL2"Β Link
JJ: "Decentralized neural networks are inevitable. Like Bitcoin is doing for money,Β @bittensor_Β may do for AI."Β Link
JJ: "1) alignment is impossible, so this goal is silly 2) this is ONLY possible through open source 3) see #2Β https://t.co/VcTj1JtfwK"Β Link
swyx π π: "very smart implementation of UBB fromΒ @arey_abhishekΒ atΒ @theappsmithΒ - UBB with per user caps! this is the best of both worlds and very customer friendly.Β https://t.co/EDCKjDoChlΒ Well done Appsmith.Β https://t.co/mQZBOK8qkq"Β Link
TechCrunch: "Flipboard expands Mastodon support to its Android applicationΒ https://t.co/DBBejI9gTyΒ byΒ @sarahintampa"Β Link
OpenBB π¦: "Today's blog post is from our CEOΒ @didier_lopes. He walks through the mindset and thinking behind why OpenBB is #OpenSource, and what that means for the future of the product and the industry at large. Read more here:Β https://t.co/Tw5kzefXbJΒ https://t.co/ekGpfK3wdV"Β Link
Aran Komatsuzaki: "BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance Presents BloombergGPT, a 50 billion parameter language model that is trained on a wide range of financial data.Β https://t.co/Sqq6AIjLZmΒ https://t.co/hxsXJuS649"Β Link
Brian Armstrong: "Count me among the people who think this is a bad idea. There are no "experts" to adjudicate this issue, and many disparate actors will never agree. Committees and bureaucracy won't solve anything. As with many technologies, there are dangers, but we should keep marching...Β https://t.co/TAD2t667Yk"Β Link
JJ: "GameFi =Β @ParallelTCGΒ πΉοΈ DeFi =Β @OpenBB_FinanceΒ πΈ DeSci =Β @DeSciLabs 𧬠DeAI =Β @Bittensor_Β π§ "Β Link
Cal.com: "happy 70k everyone π₯ΉπΒ https://t.co/YNpoEd7D1N"Β Link
Godot Engine: "We're back from #GDC23, whereΒ @godotengineΒ had an official booth for the first time! It was an amazing experience, with 16+ indie games presented by their developers, tons of great discussions with visitors, talks, and an IGF award! π Our retrospective:Β https://t.co/nyqRtYUnw7"Β Link
JJ: "Open source transcends all.. including AI.Β https://t.co/ZheFeiMgDb"Β Link
Elon Musk: "Twitter recommendation source code now available to all on GitHubΒ https://t.co/9ozsyZANwa"Β Link
MΓ₯rten Mickos: "Twitter recommendation algorithm opensourced. "Any security concerns or issues should be routed to our official bug bounty program through HackerOne. We hope to benefit from the collective intelligence and expertise of the global community in helping us identify issues and...Β https://t.co/6FOjpYai1g"Β Link
Elon Musk: "Twitter open source Spaces discussion happening now!Β https://t.co/VpS6frbOhT"Β Link
JJ: "Digital store of value is worth $1 Trillion +:Β @bitcoinΒ What will the digital store of knowledge be worth:Β @bittensor_Β Let's learn and find out. π§ "Β Link
Wasmer: "It's official. We have formally requested porting theΒ @TwitterΒ algorithm to WebAssembly & Wasmer. How awesome would it be running algorithm locally in your browser? πΊΒ https://t.co/bq7YuIVrdm"Β Link
OSS Capital: "We are rebranding to NOSS Capital --- No Open Source Capital. NOSS is our banner for ushering in the era of safe and aligned computing --- Open Source is FAR too dangerous a technology development approach to see continue at its current pace. π β #HaltAllOpenSourceProgressNow"Β Link
πΈΒ COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- Peer Richelsen ππβ‘οΈ: "i think the non-profit to capped for-profit move fromΒ @openaiΒ can come back to haunt them in the long run I think the least thing would be to publish a detailed ownership structure of the for-profit, who owns how much, who has sold at what price, etc."Β Link
π οΈΒ COSS Jobs
- 3,765Β jobs and 271 companies hiring!Β Link
- samim: "Introducing Okio, our new company that is creating Nendo, an open-source generative AI music tool suite. Join us:Β https://t.co/xIBUKAjITAΒ https://t.co/LkMExLe2ci"Β Link
π $COSS - Public Markets
Top comments (1)
So much data packed in a small post. Thank you for sharing. The COSS ecosystem is amazing and I am so proud to be part of it.