Here's the one-hundred ninety-second 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 $7M in funding announcements from Hyperbolic Labs, a huge partnership for W4 Games (with the creators of Marvel Snap and director of Hearthstone!), product updates, and a job opportunity with Cal.com!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding: $7M
- Hyperbolic, the open-access AI cloud company, announced their $7M Seed led by Polychain Capital and Lightspeed Faction. Link
📚 COSS Content
Hoppscotch: "Hoppscotch is continuously working to make API development and testing easier for you . With Release v2024.7.0, we've added a cool AI-powered feature. Now, you don't have to come up with names for your API requests because AI can do it for you . Just authenticate your account and start using this feature on Hoppscotch today!" Link
Juan Linietsky: "Left side: How Godot sits vs other game engines today in usage 2024 ( Source, stackoverflow). Right side is 2023. Unreal stayed the same, Unity is shrinking significantly. Godot is 50% bigger. At this growth rate, where will #GodotEngine be in 2025?" Link
JJ: "Huge win for @W4Games --- and welcome @seconddinner (creators of @MARVELSNAP) to the @godotengine ecosystem." Link
Juan Linietsky: "More #GodotEngine data for you: According to the estimations from @GamalyticSite, just Godot games published on Steam made a total of 70 million usd the past years (with most the past year), and growing very strong." Link
JJ: "Open source is the single best returning investment that @alexisohanian has ever made." Link
JJ: "Someone PLEASE make an open source alternative disrupter to @splinetool powered by @godotengine." Link
JJ: "In the same way that @brian_armstrong brought Bitcoin to 100M+ mainstream consumers by simplifying the UX, massively reducing custodial complexity and use, some similarly great founder will need to do the same for Bittensor in the domain of AI." Link
Juan Linietsky: "I don't know what you folks are doing with poor @itchio , but at this rate if you keep uploading nearly a thousand #GodotEngine games a week they will soon run out of storage space ." Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "big @calcom minor update v4.3.5 dropped What's Changed - fix: bulk update event type dialog logic - chore: disconnect prisma on module destroy apiv2 - fix: don't wait for telemetry for booking critical path ..." Link
Andy Touch: "Wowwww, studio who made Marvel Snap (and former devs of Blizzard's Hearthstone) are using Godot for future games! This is incredible news!" Link
GDQuest: "This studio switching to Godot is a big deal! One of the founders is the former Game Director of Hearthstone. They released a really cool and popular card game set in the Marvel universe last year, Marvel Snap. We're starting to see some really serious players supporting, trying, and even switching to Godot." Link
GamesMarkt: "Studio @W4Games, the company behind the @godotengine, announced a multi-year strategic partnership agreement with @seconddinner (Marvel Snap). The studio plans to build the largest game in Godot yet. gamesmarkt.de/en/business/go..." Link
fracteed: "You know that Godot has entered the mainstream when @LinusTech is using Godot compile times as a benchmark in his latest video. He did pronounce the name incorrectly though :) @godotengine @gamedev" Link
Quanta Magazine: "Benoît Mandelbrot, known today for coining the term "fractal," also studied the behavior of financial markets and geological phenomena. As a researcher at IBM, Mandelbrot combined the then-neglected field of complex dynamics with nascent computer graphics. quantamagazine.org/the-quest-to-d..." Link
passivestar: "Here's the full list of changes in Godot 4.3 since 4.2" Link
Tsarathustra: "Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's open source AI strategy: "We're not doing this because we're altruistic... I don't view it as giving it away, I view it as you guys all making it better for me"" Link
Didier Lopes: "ok holy sht i stepped out of bed to try this and am screaming the team was able to wrap the ENTIRE OpenBB platform as an api that runs locally to feed Terminal Pro and now i can access 181 different datasets from equity, economy, crypto, forex, options, fixed income, ... jfc" Link
Heather Meeker: "I got cited in an article on License Compliance Capability of LLMs in Code Generation. Google Scholar is fun! arxiv.org/pdf/2408.02487" Link
Juan Linietsky: "Its funny people still think a FOSS project like #GodotEngine can't even compare with companies making commercial game engines that have hundreds of engineers. At this rate its likely the opposite.. Do not underestimate the power of community developed software!." Link
Josh Pigford: "Big @maybe alpha release today! You can now manually add investments (which then uses @synth_finance to track the value of automatically). This was a major piece of the pie to get done. Killer job from @zg_dev. github.com/maybe-finance/..." Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- Kevin Xu: "Meta borrows another $10.5B via investment-grade bonds More fuel for its AI infra spend bloomberg.com/news/articles/..." Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 4,690 jobs and 317 companies hiring! Link
- Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "its true were hiring for a senior account executive apply or share app.withrapha.com/job/576?r=f499..." Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets down 0.92% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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