COSS Weekly – Week of June 29, 2026

Sabir Ibrahim


This week in COSS: The acquisition trend continued as Qualcomm agreed to acquire Modular for nearly $4 billion, Cursor quietly acquired open-source coding assistant Continue, and Elastic acquired AI SRE startup Deductive AI for up to $85 million.

In funding news, DeepSeek closed over $7 billion in funding, Timefold raised a $13M Series A for its scheduling optimization platform, and Moonshot AI has reportedly sought a $30 billion valuation in new funding talks.

In other announcements, Sentient Foundation committed $42 million to advance open-source AGI, Daytona announced it is going closed source, Vercel launched eve (an open-source agentic framework), Zilliz launched Vector Lakebase, Upbound open-sourced Modelplane (a control plane for AI inference), Bluesky COO Rose Wang discussed AI and the company’s open-source approach, and ClickHouse announced Silk, a new fiber runtime.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: ArcadeDB, Proton, HitKeep, Passbolt, Nirmata, Paper Compute Co., Plastic Labs, DuckLabs, Blacksky Algorithms, and Earendil Works.

 COSS Headlines
Introducing Modelplane: the control plane for AI inference

Companies mentioned: UpboundUpbound

Announcement  Modelplane Blog
DeepSeek closes $7bn-plus round with an unusual structure

Companies mentioned: DeepSeekDeepSeek

Funding  The Next Web
Daytona is going closed source. Here’s why.

Companies mentioned: DaytonaDaytona

Announcement  daytona.io
Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

Companies mentioned: ModularModular

Announcement  Modular Blog
Announcing Silk: a silky smooth fiber runtime for ClickHouse

Companies mentioned: ClickHouseClickHouse

Announcement  ClickHouse Blog
Timefold Raises $13M Series A for Scheduling and Routing APIs

Companies mentioned: TimefoldTimefold

Funding  Timefold Blog
Sentient Foundation Commits $42 Million to Advance Open Source AGI

Companies mentioned: Sentient FoundationSentient Foundation

Announcement  Sentient Foundation News
 Featured COSS Companies
ArcadeDB
ArcadeDB

Open-source multi-model database supporting graphs, documents, key-value, time-series, and vectors in a single engine.

Proton
Proton

Open-source encrypted privacy suite

HitKeep
HitKeep

Privacy-first open-source web analytics

Passbolt
Passbolt

Open source password manager for teams

Nirmata
Nirmata

Kubernetes policy-as-code governance

Paper Compute Co.
Paper Compute Co.

AI agent telemetry and runtime infra

Plastic Labs
Plastic Labs

Open-source memory infra for AI agents

DuckLabs
DuckLabs

Enterprise support for DuckDB & DuckLake

Blacksky Algorithms
Blacksky Algorithms

Decentralized community infrastructure platform

Earendil Works
Earendil Works

Open source AI coding agent toolkit

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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