Sam Ellis

@appenz @meetgranola I’ve been using Granola happily as an individual consultant, but I’m now considering its deployment in an SMB via MCP alongside Claude. Is this a mistake with these changes and should I be looking at other options?

Sorry to see Granola @meetgranola going closed. They encrypted their local db, no local and no cloud API. In a world where notes are managed by agents, the app now has zero value. Any recommendations for good alternatives? What are you switching to?

@alexgkendall @wayve_ai 🚀

Another major milestone in @wayve_ai's history. Proud to say we’ve secured $1.5 billion Series D investment at $8.6 billion valuation. We started a decade ago with a contrarian technical thesis: that self-driving is an AI problem, and Embodied AI will enable autonomy to scale without rules, HD-maps and using mass-produced hardware. Now we're entering commercialisation, we're taking a contrarian commercial strategy too, selecting the business model with the largest opportunity to scale. We're not selling our own cars, which limits scale to one brand. We're not operating our own fleets, which limits autonomy to city-by-city expansion. We're licensing autonomy to any vehicle, anywhere. This new business model is only possible now because we've built a general purpose AI driver, which is flexible to work with any vehicle architecture and proven to drive all around the world. This unlocks a high margin software licensing model, which we're now excited to be deploying with global partners with the strength of this new funding round. Thank you to our new and returning financial investors for backing our vision all the way: @EclipseVentures, @balderton, @SoftBank, @OTPPinfo, @BaillieGifford, @BritishBBank, @IcehouseVenture and @Schroders among other global institutional investors. We're deepening our partnerships with @Microsoft and @nvidia to build and deploy Embodied AI at global scale, and with @Uber, who are announcing supervised robotaxi trials in 10 cities around the world, starting with London this year. To top it off, three top-10 global automakers across Europe, Japan and USA are backing and believing in our technology for consumer vehicles and robotaxis: @MercedesBenz, @Nissan and @Stellantis. I’ve always believed that our end-to-end AI approach would lead the way in autonomy. This latest investment and the endorsement that comes with it make me believe that the industry is also now converging on that idea too. What's next? We have a busy next few years of commercial delivery: supervised robotaxi trials around the world in 2026 and consumer vehicle sales from 2027. Thank you to the incredible Wayve team for making this all possible. Check out all details here: wayve.ai/press/series-d/

@tomfgoodwin Try this Tom. Not sure on long lets, but they do have great French properties simpsontravel.com/france

Best way to rent a house ( can be rural ) in the “south of France” for 2-4 months in the summer ? Not especially picky on where Worth writing to agents selling them? Airbnb's is shocking for long lets. It’s like a nightly rate x 26 nights

@s8mb The most interesting thing would be % chance of your child getting in based on location for next application. Schools publish the distance each year, but it changes. Could link to whether it’s a low birth rate year.

I found the official Get Information about Schools website a bit clunky, so I made a new one with Claude Code. You can: - Set a postcode and see all schools within a radius of that you've chosen, filtered by type of school. - Filter and rank by the old one-word Ofsted ratings, with a link to the Ofsted page for each school. Where available, the sub-ratings are also viewable. - Filter and rank by percentage of students on free school meals. - View how full up schools are (number of pupils vs capacity). Let me know what you think! Happy to add new features and info that might be helpful. school-finder-uk.netlify.app

@jaylew333 @Tesla This happened overnight didn't it?

So the standard Model Y gets the bigger 16" screen in the UK? (But not the black headliner) interesting! @Tesla

@tomfgoodwin We really enjoyed Tehran here (Apple TV+). First season excellent, second slightly mixed but still good, third has just started. Hope all going well with the little one.

I loved homeland , succession and breaking bad I’m now frequently exhausted ( 7 month old baby) and want an amazing tv show that captivates me like these did. And fairly early on in episode 1 Suggestions ?

@ViQueenie @grok what does this refer to?

We are witnessing the colossal downfall of the ‘House of Sussex’ in real time! and I’m fully here for it. #MeghanMarkIe #PrinceHarry

@EncorDesign Lovely idea chaps, good luck to you 👏

Introducing the Encor Series 1: a remastered Lotus Esprit. Fifty years after the original turned heads in Paris. Full carbon body shell. Esprit V8 donor. Driver-focused. Limited to just 50 cars. Stay informed via link in bio. #EncorSeries1 #RemasteredEsprit #Esprit50Anniversary

@Alex_Badalyan Looks cool Alex. Though I read about this post in your paid X ad, so not entirely true!

3 years ago, my mum, a doctor and an active woman in her 50s, went into A&E and was diagnosed with cancer. 37% of cancer diagnoses happen in A&E. I find this hard to swallow. Diseases like my mum’s can be prevented. We’ve been working on Emerald (withemerald.com) for months, and today, we’re finally public. If you’re in the UK and care about your health, you should be on Emerald. And if you can pay for a Netflix subscription, you can definitely afford Emerald. An Emerald membership includes ongoing live chat GP access and two full-body screenings in a clinic near you, plus all of your data in the same place, and a practical, dynamic action plan to help you stay ahead of disease and reach your health goals. 40% of @NHSuk funding goes to treating preventable disease. Meanwhile, the market is full of “miracle” longevity products. Myself and the Emerald team believe that there’s a better place to start: get the basics right. Screen. Track. Understand. Act. We’ve helped hundreds of people in our private Alpha, and thousands are on our waitlist (we’ve yet to run a single ad). Already, Emerald has: • Caught countless early issues before symptoms appeared • Launched 10-min full body screenings at 40+ UK clinics (with more coming) • Enabled direct GP messaging for proactive guidance • Integrate with all major wearables withemerald.com Beta is open. We’re scaling gradually as we expand GP capacity so you might need to wait a bit before getting access, DM me.

@TomBlackmore90 Could you please DM me the details?

@SamuelEllis It will be priced around £65k

Special new arrival 2023 Alpina B3, green over tan 🤤

@AutoPap What was the £ cost for the setup change (out of interest)?

@Katspur71 Got a night in Biarritz tonight, should be in the Bilbao city centre tomorrow for about 13:00 I reckon, rough plan was to head to the main Spurs fan area pre-match, see you there?

@SamuelEllis Safe journey, Sam. Hope to see you out there ⚽️💙 #COYS

Leg Two of the Road to Bilbao is underway. At least 4 other #Spurs fans have found the Naples route with Volotea. Hopefully the best €33 I’ve ever spent 🤞😀#COYS

@ESYudkowsky Assume it will be available in the UK?

Thank you all, for however long or briefly you've been with us on this journey. The next step begins now, and here. IfAnyoneBuilds.It/?ref=eyxmay

Nate Soares and I are publishing a traditional book: _If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All_. Coming in Sep 2025. You should probably read it! Given that, we'd like you to preorder it! Nowish!

@Katspur71 Yes we can. Now I just need a ticket../

Really hoping this doesn’t come back to haunt me but this time feels different. In 2019, I was ecstatic just to have made it to the UCL Final. I didn’t process what winning might look like. Now it’s a clear focus on lifting the UEL trophy. We can absolutely do this. COYS 🤜🤛

@HarryStebbings What proof do they have that their users really learn a language to a good enough degree that can get by in that country when visiting (or moving to live there)?

One of the best-performing companies of the last 12 months: Duolingo. 📈 Market cap soared from $8.35B to $22.1B (164% increase) 👥 Daily active users jumped from 28M to 46.6M (66% increase) 💰 Revenue up from $748M to a projected $996M EOY 2025! I have their co-founder, @severinhacker on 20VC next week. What are the must asks? X, work your magic.

@timoldland Been looking myself at EVs <£40k due to the expensive vehicle tax, Model 3 and EV3 squeeze just below it in ok specs.

@SamuelEllis Nope, same.

So. Polestar 2 SR RWD and Model 3 SR RWD. 343 vs 344 miles WLTP, within £5 of each other on SalSac scheme. What you picking? Both cars pictured are in the base spec with no options. Polestar is better specified as standard with Harman/Kardon stereo, heat pump, heated rear seats etc as it has the ‘Prime’ pack as std now which combines the Plus, Climate and Pilot packs. Also has CarPlay. But the Model 3 has the Supercharger network and its ease of use etc, will likely do much closer to the actual range as they’re insanely efficient. Both offer more range than my current Cupra Born (340). Vote in attached post, and if you don’t like EVs or this doesn’t interest you, don’t leave fucking snarky comments - nobody gives a shit.

Here's a fascinatingly well-researched scenario where AI takes over in a few years and then kills all humans. Whatever actually happens will probably feel comparably sci-fi: