Benjamin

3rd place YC Hackathon (hack the stackathon) Out of 85 teams, third is not too shabby. Much love @firecrawl

@thinkwithmark It really is amazing, the concept, the execution. Keep growing this

@itsbenjaminb Thanks Benjamin!

We raised $1M dollars to reinvent how people read. Introducing Mark II - a $159 AI bookmark. Thread below

@thatrtx @joincr3w Will see you there

Today #londonmaxxing at OpenAI Codex and @joincr3w meetups. Give me a shout if you are there

@theshre @meetgranola Would love to go to this

Will be an absolute banger! May 21, @meetgranola HQ 🇬🇧

@poolsideai @nvidia @PrimeIntellect @huggingface Excited for this!

Poolside is hosting a 2-day model research hackathon in London. Join us to push an open-weight agent model as far as you can. RL and fine-tune Laguna XS.2, our latest-generation model, on Prime Intellect Lab. Dates: May 29–30 Partners: @nvidia + @PrimeIntellect + @huggingface Prize: NVIDIA DGX Spark Agents need better models. Better models need cracked researchers. Link below.

@reach_vb Would love to join and @Andy_AJT is running Codex events here too

putting together a group chat for Codex power users in London / Europe who are the biggest ballers around?

@TheRohanVarma @romainhuet @TheRohanVarma Keep websites, social media posts, articles etc and chat with your content

1,000+ of you signed up for tomorrow’s Codex Community meetup in London 🤯 To make the waitlist a bit more fun, we’re running a tiny competition 😁 Reply with something you’ve built with Codex, or a cool workflow you use it for. Bonus points for a product link or demo 👀 @romainhuet @reach_vb @Andy_AJT and I will pick the coolest ones! luma.com/codex-ldn-1

@wulfie_bain_ @romainhuet @TheRohanVarma Looking forward to it!

@romainhuet @TheRohanVarma & team are in London - come along to meet the people who have built *the best* general agent out there. Sunday night turnaround to event on Thursday with hundreds of people tells you the speed our teams like to move at 🚀

@Andy_AJT @romainhuet @reach_vb @OpenAIDevs Looking forward to this!

Announcing the first OpenAI Codex Community Meetup in London. This Thursday 14th May @ Kings Cross we've got some special guests & surprises in store for this launch event get ready for some hardcore goblinmaxxing link below

@Andy_AJT Lightning talks from the team would be cool. I was in sf a month back, and they hosted a hackathon where the codex team was walking around speaking with everyone. Including Greg and Sam - a London equivalent would be great

@itsbenjaminb What kind of event would you be most excited to go to on an evening?

For the first Codex Community Event in London, what type of event would people prefer? Feel free to add other suggestions in thread - I want to make the best event for Agentic Engineers possible.

@KrisAnfalova Do you use after effects or other tools too? Also curious, have you had a play around with Remotion or Rive?

I don’t charge for the 2 hours it took to UI design this page. I charge for the 12 years it took to learn how to do it in 2 hours. Efficiency isn’t a discount. It’s a premium feature.

@cjpedregal I expect nothing less

Granola app of the day!

@kyroshrestha @zanehengsperger @Astranis I’m for sure swinging by when I’m back in sf (in ~June)

@zanehengsperger We actually have a 150,000 sq ft satellite factory right across from YC in Dogpatch (that white building in your video) with multiple DMG MORIs and a new Makino MAG3.EX. Let me know if you want to pull up.

idea for YC company, there’s a factory directly next to YC waiting for you or maybe nox dogpatch???

@Andy_AJT Went to come of the Codex events while I was in sf, looking forward to the London ones before I go back

I’m now the OpenAI Codex Ambassador for London 🇬🇧 I am loving engineering with Codex & GPT-5.5 If you’re already using Codex or coding agents, building AI agents, or working on ambitious AI products in London I’d love to connect & see you at the next event!

@adilmania @elonmusk @grok This is awesome haha nice one adil

i bet @elonmusk will never do this. @grok do you agree?

@joshycodes Shot you a dm :)

overwhelmed by all the love on this… thank you everyone 🥹 for anyone trying to get into AI safety research: everyone’s path will be different, but I would say become unapologetically obsessed read a ton. overfit, then compress. go deep enough to develop taste, then learn what actually matters recreate experiments, write about them, and share them with people as obsessed as you are!!!

I saw this post and almost didn’t apply Took the chance anyway, and now I got in 😭

@theshre @awxjack @airwallex @meetgranola Would love to go!

Excited to host @awxjack, co-founder of @airwallex! Jack's Airwallex journey is incredible: - lost all financial support at 16. Dishwasher, bartender, cashier to pay for uni - turned down a $1bn+ Stripe acq. offer - classic 10yr overnight success: $8B val, $1.3B+ ARR May 6 🇬🇧

@adriannalakatos @officialmoezee @bikbrar

know a cracked builder? drop their @ finalizing invites for canopy. got a few slots open for interviews today + tomorrow. first decisions out EOD friday. april 15 start. 100 teams irl. 400 online. hardware. software. media. investing $100k - $250k checks

@HaroutKhack @rtwlz Lmaooo

@rtwlz Food near me

Ever wanted to NAME A STREET? We’re auctioning off the naming rights to an actual alley in San Francisco. Highest bidder can name it whatever they want. Ends Tuesday at 1pm PT