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Reuters

Chinese luggage ‌maker Anhui Korrun (300577.SZ), opens new tab said on Thursday a fund it invested in deployed 2.9 billion yuan for an indirect 0.8265% stake in DeepSeek, implying the private AI startup was valued at 350.88 billion yuan ($51.82 billion).

Companies:DeepSeek

The Register

The Register reports on Thinking Machines Lab's release of Inkling, its new open weight model.

Companies:Thinking Machines Lab

TechCrunch

TechCrunch reports on Thinking Machines' release of Inkling, its open weight model.

Companies:Thinking Machines Lab

Thinking Machines Blog

Thinking Machines Lab announces the release of its open weight model, Inkling.

Companies:Thinking Machines Lab

Anaconda Blog

Anaconda announces its acquisition of Kilo Code.

Companies:AnacondaKilo Code

Mozilla News

Mozilla announces the release of its first annual "State of Open Source AI" report.

Companies:Mozilla Corporation

TechCrunch

DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is preparing for a 2027 IPO debut, but it could come as early as the end of this year as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at about a $71 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports.

Companies:DeepSeek

TechCrunch

Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal.

Companies:Nous Research

VentureBeat

DeepSeek's recent decision to drastically cut pricing on its V4-Pro model by 75% should have been unequivocally good news for enterprise AI vendors and developers. Instead, many are discovering that cheaper models don’t automatically translate into healthier margins.

Companies:DeepSeek

Prisma Blog

If your billing already runs through Stripe, you don't need a new vendor relationship to get a production Postgres database. Stripe Projects lets you add Prisma Postgres to your project with one command. Because the whole flow runs in your terminal, you can let your agent do it.

Companies:Prisma

Toni Schneider Blog

Bluesky announces that the 'interim' tag has been dropped from its CEO's title.

Companies:Bluesky

Ollama Blog

A blog post from the the Ollama founders marking their funding and user base milestones

Companies:Ollama

TechCrunch

The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Ventures, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch.

Companies:Ollama

Variety

Variety article on new Automattic film.

Companies:Automattic

Entire Blog

Entire announces is seevice allowing users to mirror their public or private GitHub repositories on Entire—a fast, distributed, Git-compatible network.

Companies:Entire

Hendrik Mans Blog

Chatto creator Hendrik Mans announces that Chatto, the group and team chat application that he has been working on, is now officially open source and available for anyone to self-host.

Companies:Chatto

Vercel Blog

Vercel is acquiring Better Auth, the company behind the open source TypeScript authentication library, which has 4.7M+ weekly npm downloads and more than 850 contributors. Founder Bereket Engida and the core team are joining Vercel to continue their work on Better Auth and agent identity.

Companies:VercelBetter Auth

Bespoke Labs Blog

Bespoke Labs announces its Seed and Series A financing rounds to build a frontier data research lab and support for the post-training needs of enterprises and frontier labs.

Companies:Bespoke Labs

OpenClaw Blog

OpenClaw is now a non-profit, with a full-time team, world-class partners, and a mission to bring personal AI to everyone.

Companies:OpenClaw

Marktechpost

Synthetic Sciences has released OpenScience, an open-source AI workbench for scientific research. It is licensed under Apache 2.0 and runs on local infrastructure. The research team frames it as an open alternative to Anthropic’s Claude Science, launched in late June 2026.

Companies:Synthetic Sciences

PC Gamer

On July 1, Fenris Creations (formerly CCP) completed the full open source release of its in-house Carbon Engine, the tech behind long-running MMO EVE Online and early access space survival game EVE Frontier. The Carbon Engine's repositories are available now on GitHub.

Companies:Fenris Creations

Founders, Inc.

Founders, Inc. profile of Vendo.

Companies:Vendo

Tech.eu

Today the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is embracing open source and rolling out a statewide collaboration platform based on Nextcloud – with the goal of reaching more than 50,000 employees across state and municipal administration in the long term.

Companies:Nextcloud

Fenris Newsroom

Technology behind EVE Online’s largest battles is now fully open source, giving developers, players, researchers, and builders access to the foundations of Fenris’ persistent world technology.

Companies:Fenris Creations

Immich Blog

The Immich team announces the release of version 3.0.

Companies:Immich