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De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences is reportedly in talks to raise new capital at a valuation somewhere between twenty billion and thirty billion dollars. That would represent a doubling or tripling of its previous valuation, a remarkable figure for a company whose core business is bringing back species like the woolly mammoth. Whether the science justifies that price tag is a question investors will have to answer for themselves.
In the open-source world, Andrew, the founder of Jellyfin — the popular community-run media server that many users turned to as an alternative to Plex — has stepped away from the project's leadership team. The announcement came quietly through the project's forum, with little elaboration. Leadership transitions in volunteer-driven open-source projects can be delicate, and the community will be watching closely to see how the team moves forward.
And a debate worth following in artificial intelligence circles: a new essay asks whether releasing open-weight AI models actually slows down the pace of AI development rather than accelerating it. The argument is counterintuitive — that wide access fragments research effort and delays coordinated progress. It's an early-stage conversation, but it cuts to the heart of how we think about openness and power in this industry.
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