This week in COSS: Orkes raised $60M to build more reliable AI workloads, while Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a valuation exceeding $20 billion. Supabase is reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $10 billion, ClickHouse expanded its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud, and Forbes declared that open source AI is moving from sideshow to strategy.
We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Activeloop, Arcee AI, Artillery, Chromatic, Dash0, Instill AI, Lightning AI, Lost Pixel, Octopus, Transactility, TrustGraph, and Wave Terminal.
COSS Headlines
Bluesky blames DDoS attack for server outages
Companies mentioned: Bluesky
OSS News & Views · Engadget
Khoj Cloud - Service Deprecated
Companies mentioned: Khoj
Announcement · Khoj
ClickHouse expands strategic collaboration with Google Cloud
Companies mentioned: ClickHouse
Announcement · ClickHouse Blog
Infleqtion Awarded $2 Million DARPA Contract for Heterogeneous Quantum Software
Companies mentioned: Infleqtion
OSS News & Views · Quantum Computing Report
Announcing the LangChain + MongoDB Partnership
Companies mentioned: LangChain, MongoDB
Announcement · LangChain
Database Startup Supabase in Talks to Double Valuation to $10 Billion
Companies mentioned: Supabase
Funding · The Information
Open Source AI Is Moving From Sideshow To Strategy
Companies mentioned: Hugging Face
Media Mention · Forbes
Orkes raises $60M for more reliable AI workloads
Companies mentioned: Orkes
Funding · Axios
Tencent, Alibaba in talks to invest in DeepSeek at over $20 billion valuation
Companies mentioned: DeepSeek
Funding · Reuters
App host Vercel says it was hacked and customer data stolen
Companies mentioned: Vercel
Announcement · TechCrunch
AI and the Future of Cybersecurity: Why Openness Matters
Companies mentioned: Hugging Face
OSS News & Views · Hugging Face Blog
Featured COSS Companies
Activeloop
GPU-native database for AI agents
Artillery
Load testing & E2E testing platform
Dash0
OpenTelemetry-native observability platform
Chromatic
Visual testing and UI review platform for Storybook, Playwright, and Cypress.
Instill AI
AI workspace for document intelligence
Lost Pixel
Open-source visual regression testing
Lightning AI
AI cloud platform for developers
Octopus
AI-powered open-source code review tool
Wave Terminal
AI-native open-source terminal
TrustGraph
Graph-native AI context platform
Transactility
Commercial licensing and support for jPOS
Arcee AI
Open-weight AI models and enterprise agentic AI