Open source powers the business of many large corporations and they give essentially nothing back - why would maintainers refuse an offer for money in this environment?
AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
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Re: AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
#32Guys - skynet is winning the war. We oldschool humans are left behind here.
Wasn't GitHub once a place for humans? Now we could rename it SkyHub.
Re: AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
#33Seed was in Aug ‘25 and website simply says the project will no longer be maintained: https://www.tensorzero.com/
Obviously they upgraded, bought a dash, and moved on to https://www.tensor-one.com/
And new Github profile too.
Re: AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
#34Re: AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
#35Just switch to Bifrost already
Re: AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
#36About one year ago, I created an LLM gateway with metrics, provider fallback and switching, tools support, injecting, etc. etc., and unique features like acting as an MCP tools client and server, all streamed, with low latency.
It was a simple project in terms of technical complexity. I didn't publish it as I counted several similar projects in the field.
Putting $7.3M into such a project would make sense only in the case of a precise growth plan with already declared customers and an promising sales funnel. There is no technical moat.
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#37Re: AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can call it a bait but where is VCs due diligence for this. Most VCs where out there defending their infra layers investment. Just look at YC batches and see the inflated number of infra startups.
"Failure" is the expected median though. You can't due-diligence your way out of "startup ran out of runway"! The discussion here isn't about funding, it's that there's a presumptively useful community tool which got abandoned because its owners took their toys and went home when the money ran out (instead of making a sincere effort at transitioning to community governance). That's on the IP owners being selfish jerk…
While most startups fail eventually, failure in less than a year with over 7 million dollars is not the expected median. It’s the exact sort of thing that due diligence is supposed to prevent.
Also the whole project is open source. If you want, you could take it over.
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#39Re: AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can call it a bait but where is VCs due diligence for this. Most VCs where out there defending their infra layers investment. Just look at YC batches and see the inflated number of infra startups.
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Only if the CEO is the first man to step foot on mars. He gets to be immortalized, we get to watch him die living his best life.