COSS Weekly – Week of April 27, 2026

Sabir Ibrahim

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: BlueskyBluesky

OSS News & Views  Engadget
Khoj Cloud – Service Deprecated

Companies mentioned: KhojKhoj

Announcement  Khoj
ClickHouse expands strategic collaboration with Google Cloud

Companies mentioned: ClickHouseClickHouse

Announcement  ClickHouse Blog
Infleqtion Awarded $2 Million DARPA Contract for Heterogeneous Quantum Software

Companies mentioned: InfleqtionInfleqtion

OSS News & Views  Quantum Computing Report
Announcing the LangChain + MongoDB Partnership

Companies mentioned: LangChainLangChain, MongoDBMongoDB

Announcement  LangChain
Open Source AI Is Moving From Sideshow To Strategy

Companies mentioned: Hugging FaceHugging Face

Media Mention  Forbes
Orkes raises $60M for more reliable AI workloads

Companies mentioned: OrkesOrkes

Funding  Axios
App host Vercel says it was hacked and customer data stolen

Companies mentioned: VercelVercel

Announcement  TechCrunch
AI and the Future of Cybersecurity: Why Openness Matters

Companies mentioned: Hugging FaceHugging Face

OSS News & Views  Hugging Face Blog
 Featured COSS Companies
Activeloop
Activeloop

GPU-native database for AI agents

Artillery
Artillery

Load testing & E2E testing platform

Dash0
Dash0

OpenTelemetry-native observability platform

Chromatic
Chromatic

Visual testing and UI review platform for Storybook, Playwright, and Cypress.

Instill AI
Instill AI

AI workspace for document intelligence

Lost Pixel
Lost Pixel

Open-source visual regression testing

Lightning AI
Lightning AI

AI cloud platform for developers

Octopus
Octopus

AI-powered open-source code review tool

Wave Terminal
Wave Terminal

AI-native open-source terminal

TrustGraph
TrustGraph

Graph-native AI context platform

Transactility
Transactility

Commercial licensing and support for jPOS

Arcee AI
Arcee AI

Open-weight AI models and enterprise agentic AI

Sabir is an attorney, entrepreneur, and expert on COSS. In his roles as corporate counsel at Amazon and Roku and associate at Greenberg Traurig, he advised nearly all of the Big Five technology companies on complex open source matters. Currently, he is founder and managing attorney of OptimEdge Legal, where he advises technology clients of all sizes on matters related to open source and other technology law issues.


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