Deepset, a startup developing a open source framework and managed service for building NLP apps, has raised $14 million in a venture funding round.

Deepset has built an open-source NLP framework called Haystack, which helps companies build pipelines to power plain-English data queries.

A growing number of startups are offering open source language models as a service, competing with heavyweights like OpenAI.

German startup Kern AI has raised a $2.9M seed funding round for a platform that helps NLP developers and data scientists.

Whether the Google model of code-but-no-weights release, the GPT-3 commercial API model or yet another operating paradigm for AI models will prevail is yet to be seen.