COSS Weekly: Teleport adds Cisco as strategic investor, Temporal raises $550M, PickNik acquired by Qualcomm, and more

This week in COSS: Funding and M&A activity included Temporal's $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation, Arcee AI's $150 million Series B at a valuation above $1 billion, Herdr's $6 million seed round, Tiledesk's €1.1 million funding, Clastix's €2.9 million seed investment, Cisco's strategic investment in Teleport, and Qualcomm's agreement to acquire PickNik.

Other announcements: Kestra launched Kestra 2.0, enabling workflows to be used as AI agent tools; Zed opened the public beta of Delta for collaborative coding with agents; and Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight model that translates camera observations, robot state, and natural-language instructions into physical actions.

We also feature the following companies in Cossmology: Authelia, Bonitasoft, Clastix, Herdr, Jitsu, nao Labs, Nexus, PickNik, Revideo, and Tiledesk.

Black Forest Labs debuts FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights AI robotics model that tops the leaderboard at half the size of its competition

Companies mentioned: Black Forest Labs
Announcement · VentureBeat

Herdr raised a $6M seed

Companies mentioned: Herdr
Funding · Herdr Blog

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COSS Weekly: Teleport adds Cisco as strategic investor, Temporal raises $550M, PickNik acquired by Qualcomm, and more

COSS Headlines

Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation as demand grows for reliable AI infrastructure

Teleport Adds Cisco as Strategic Investor, Announces Partnership

Replace PRs with Delta – Now in Public Beta

Kestra launches Kestra 2.0

Qualcomm to Acquire PickNik to Advance the Future of Open Robotics and Physical AI

Tiledesk raises €1.1 mn to expand open-source AI agent platform

Clastix Closes €2.9 million Seed Round from Mistral, Others

Arcee AI Raises Series B to Build the Future of American Open Models

Black Forest Labs debuts FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights AI robotics model that tops the leaderboard at half the size of its competition

Herdr raised a $6M seed

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