This week in COSS: Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, Metriport secured $26 million in Series A financing, Stability AI closed a $76 million Series B, and W4 Games raised $18 million in Series B. In M&A news, Nvidia confirmed its $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, AWS completed its acquisition of DuckLabs while keeping DuckDB under the DuckDB Foundation, and MotherDuck acquired Tower Computing to develop data APIs and data-agent capabilities.
Other announcements include OpenClaw 2.0, the project's largest update to date; Mistral AI's strategic collaboration with HUMAIN on sovereign AI infrastructure, models, and Arabic-language frontier models; and OpenBB's decision to shutter its business and open source its entire product suite under a permissive license. Together AI is partnering with HUMAIN for 250 megawatts of Saudi data-center capacity, while OpsMill is bringing the community-led Nornir network-automation project into the company with additional engineering, funding, and release support.
We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Headroom Labs, Orca, Muse Group, iii, Upbound, stagewise, Conduktor, TraceLoop, BlazeMeter, and SafeDep.
COSS Headlines
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
Companies mentioned: OpenClaw
Announcement · OpenClaw Blog
Mistral x HUMAIN | Mistral AI
Companies mentioned: Mistral AI
Announcement · Mistral AI
OpenBB belongs to everyone
Companies mentioned: OpenBB
Announcement · OpenBB
Fleeing Data Center Backlash at Home, American AI Startup Sets Up Shop In Saudi Arabia
Companies mentioned: Together AI
Announcement · Gizmodo
Databricks Hits $190 Billion Valuation As CEO Ali Ghodsi Claims AGI Has Already Arrived
Companies mentioned: Databricks
Funding · Forbes
MotherDuck acquires Tower.dev
Companies mentioned: MotherDuck
Announcement · MotherDuck
Metriport raises $26 million to give clinicians insight into any patient ...
Companies mentioned: Metriport
Funding · Metriport
Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion - TechCrunch
Companies mentioned: Hugging Face
Announcement · TechCrunch
AWS to Acquire DuckLabs, DuckDB Project Stays Open Source
Companies mentioned: DuckLabs
Announcement · Linuxiac
Stability AI latest funding backed by entertainment industry biggest names
Companies mentioned: Stability AI
Funding · Stability AI
Nornir Joins Opsmill
Companies mentioned: OpsMill
Announcement · OpsMill
W4 Games raises $18 million to accelerate international presence
Companies mentioned: W4 Games
Funding · W4 Games
Featured COSS Companies
Headroom Labs
Context compression for AI agents
Orca
IDE for parallel AI coding agents
Muse Group
Music-creation tools and publishing platform
iii
Backend runtime that unifies APIs, jobs, and tasks
Upbound
The Cloud for Platform Engineering
stagewise
Frontend coding agent for production codebases
Conduktor
Conduktor: data hub for operational data & AI.
TraceLoop
LLM reliability platform for continuous feedback.
BlazeMeter
AI-powered continuous testing platform.
SafeDep
Scans open source packages for malicious code.
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