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Hi folks, This week’s lead story looks at Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 model lineup, and why its approach offers a better template for what “open source AI” should look like. Elsewhere, the race to build a GitHub alternative continues; open-weight models rise to the top on production AI routers; and more. As usual, feel free to reach out to me with any questions, tips, corrections, or suggestions: forkable[at]pm.me. Paul Thanks for reading Forkable. Subscribe for free to receive new posts each Friday.

Hi folks, This week’s lead story looks at a notable piece of guidance from the US government’s cybersecurity agency that essentially tells federal agencies to default to open source software and treat vendor lock-in as a security risk. Elsewhere, Cloudflare has had a busy week in the open source realm; MCP gets a major enterprise upgrade; Nscale doles out $1.65 billion for the company behind open source distributed computing framework Ray; and much more.

Hi folks, This edition’s lead story looks at a wave of AI-driven acquisitions in the open source world, and what it says about where the real competition in the AI stack is actually playing out. Elsewhere, Linus Torvalds puts his foot down on AI in the Linux kernel; the Linux Foundation gives AI agents a way to pay for things; Apple quietly acquires an open source observability startup; and much more.

Hi folks, This week's lead story covers the formal launch of the OpenClaw Foundation — the independent body now stewarding one of the year’s biggest open source success stories, and the question of what neutrality actually means when your backers include OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tencent.

Welcome to Forkable’s Open Profile column, where I go in-depth on key projects, companies, and figures from across the open source realm. In this edition, I check in with Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp, a developer tooling startup behind a popular AI-native terminal that announced a couple of months back that it was open-sourcing its client after years of internal debate.

Hi folks, This week’s lead story looks at the race to build a GitHub alternative for the agentic era — with Cursor, GitLab, and Zed all taking aim at the pull request model that has defined software collaboration for nearly two decades. Elsewhere, OpenAI launches a programme to patch vulnerabilities in widely used open source projects; the EU picks a winner to build its own frontier AI model in all 24 official languages; and the Linux Foundation wants to give AI agents a DNS-style identity.

Hi folks, This week’s lead story looks at the fallout from the US government’s order forcing Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide — and how quickly that opening was seized on by those professing the merits of more open-aligned models.

Hi folks, This week’s lead story looks at how soaring AI inference costs are forcing some companies into decisions they probably wouldn't have entertained a year ago — and why one startup's switch from Anthropic to DeepSeek says a lot about where open-weight models now stand. Elsewhere, Euro-Office launched and immediately drew fire from LibreOffice; a developer built an open source app to liberate Oura Ring data from its subscription paywall; and more.

Hi folks, This week’s lead story looks at the European Commission’s landmark tech sovereignty package — and what it means for open source specifically. Elsewhere, Euro-Office is set to launch as a European alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Docs; IBM and Red Hat commit $5 billion to securing the open source supply chain; Supabase raises $500 million at a $10.5 billion valuation; and much more.

Welcome to Forkable’s Open Profile column, where I go in-depth on key projects, companies, and figures from across the open source realm. In this edition, I check in with Karthik Ranganathan, CEO and co-founder of Yugabyte, an open-source database company now pushing into AI infrastructure with the launch of Meko, a new “memory layer” for AI agents. Meko reflects how infrastructure companies are reassessing their role in the agentic AI stack.