Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users |

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.…

Percona and HexaCluster Collaborate to Help Enterprises Move from Legacy Databases to Open Source

Jul 1, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Percona, a provider of open source database software and services, is partnering with HexaCluster, a PostgreSQL migration and services…

Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product |

Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open source data room software, accused…

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

As fears about AI hacking capabilities grow, OpenAI on Monday made a slew of cybersecurity-focused announcements, including an improved version of its limited-access security-specialized model…

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M |

5:51 PM PDT · June 18, 2026 DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, has agreed to be sold…

IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source

Jun 8, 2026 IBM and Red Hat are collaborating onProject Lightwell,a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of…

Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says |

3:56 PM PDT · June 3, 2026 Lovable and Google announced an expanded multiyear collaboration on Wednesday. Lovable, the fast-growing Stockholm vibe-coding startup, has long…

Percona Joins Sponsors for pgBackRest to Keep PostgreSQL Backups Running and Open Source

May 20, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Percona is announcing it has joined a group of companies to sponsor pgBackRest, one of PostgreSQL’s most widely used…

China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets |

Chinese AI companies may not be swimming in as much cash as their Western rivals, but their open source models are still facing no shortage…

I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee |

2:35 PM PDT · April 7, 2026 Arcee, a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a massive, 400B-parameter open source LLM on a $20 million…