COSS Weekly – Week of July 6, 2026

Sabir Ibrahim

This week in COSS: Together AI announced an $800M Series C to accelerate the shift to open-source AI, SuperPlane raised a $2.6M pre-seed round to build an automation engine for AI-driven engineering, and Aikido Security acquired Root.io to strengthen software supply chain security.

Other headlines include a New York Times profile of Together AI, Nvidia adopting OpenBao (an open source fork of HashiCorp Vault), Immich hitting version 3.0, Deutsche Telekom partnering with n8n for AI agent automation, Ververica sunsetting its cloud managed service in favor of sovereign BYOC Apache Flink deployments, a German state deploying Nextcloud statewide to replace Microsoft SharePoint, and a Traefik blog post on the implications of governments switching off frontier AI models overnight.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Immich, Keploy, KorPro, Metabase, Open Mercato, PipeLab, Pluton, SuperPlane, Terrateam, and ZeroRisc.

 COSS Headlines
Aikido acquires Root to secure the supply chain

Companies mentioned: Aikido SecurityAikido Security

Announcement  Aikido Security Blog
Nvidia adopts OpenBao, open source fork of HashiCorp’s Vault

Companies mentioned: HashiCorpHashiCorp

Announcement  TechTarget
Immich hits 3.0

Companies mentioned: ImmichImmich

Announcement  Immich Blog
 Featured COSS Companies
PipeLab
PipeLab

Open-source AI agent firewall

KorPro
KorPro

Multi-cloud Kubernetes cost optimizer

Pluton
Pluton

Open-source self-hosted backup solution

Open Mercato
Open Mercato

Open-source AI CRM/ERP foundation framework

SuperPlane
SuperPlane

Open-source control plane for platform engineering

Immich
Immich

Self-hosted photo & video management solution

ZeroRisc
ZeroRisc

ZeroRisc offers secure silicon device management.

Terrateam
Terrateam

GitOps automation for Terraform & OpenTofu

Metabase
Metabase

Open-source business intelligence platform

Keploy
Keploy

AI-powered API testing platform

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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