This week in COSS: Databricks reported annualized revenue of $6.9 billion — up over 80% year-over-year — and announced plans to acquire Panther, an AI SOC platform, further expanding its security lakehouse ambitions. Toyota took a 1% stake in autonomous driving startup TIER IV with a technology collaboration MoU; Ricoh invested in vector database startup Weaviate through its RICOH Innovation Fund; and Ant Group’s international arm is reportedly considering a $1 billion fundraise.

Vercel launched eve, an open-source agent framework; Chainguard committed $50 million and 100 engineers to securing open source from emerging AI-era threats; OpenCode reached 8 million monthly active users and projects $25 million in annual revenue; Element was recognized as a Digital Public Good; Unleash announced it is moving its open-source core to AGPLv3; ClickHouse celebrated ten years in open source; Aptean acquired ROTOR Software GmbH to expand its dealer management systems offerings; and Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek spoke with Computerworld about digital sovereignty and the growing geopolitical relevance of open source.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Aikido Security, Blaxel, InsForge, Kernel, Moonshot AI, ParadeDB, Robusta, RudderStack, T3 Chat, and Tesseral.