🇪🇺🇫🇷It is official! We are expanding 🌍 As @OpenAI announced this week we are opening an office in Paris, as well as Brussels, NYC, Seattle and Singapore! I 💙🤍❤️ startups in France and across Europe and am so excited to grow our presence and keep building, now even more closely with the amazing founder community here. 👩‍🍳Keep an eye out and catch me and @kagigz in Paris soon.

I was at the office today and spoke to an OpenAI researcher who said he never studied CS formally, learned everything on ChatGPT making his own learning plan with relentless focus. If you want to be more technical there is no longer an excuse!

I'm thrilled to share I've joined @OpenAI to work with Startups in EMEA. EMEA is home to world-class innovators, visionary startups & investors who back them. I am very excited to partner with them as they build the future with OpenAI And I get to do it with the best team ever

Hallo Germany 🇩🇪 We are so excited to be expanding @OpenAI across Europe and opening our new office in Munich. Germany has amazing innovation, incredible talent, (and very technical talent at that!), building across so many sectors, and fantastic VCs supporting them. I can't wait to meet all the founders there and help them build together. Auf gehts! 💪

Happy Halloween from the London OpenAI team ! #Halloween

Mr. @garrytan and @ycombinator making sure SF is the only place to be at today! YC Demo Day W25 is vibes

Full house with great and fun dev energy at the @elevenlabs x @a16z Consumer AI Hackathon in London! And what a treat to have @matiii, @sriramk judging. Well done @ammaar and @lukeharries

Founder Embassy: The 🇪🇺energy we love to see in SF @HelenaGagern and @schaumburgd got a 🔥landing pad 🏡 for European founders moving to SF. A place to sleep, work, eat and meet with the euro devs and builders community here. Complete with an Italian chef for today's dinner

We hosted an @OpenAI Dev Meetup in London with AI founders in 🇬🇧 @sama had an inspiring AMA @kagigz showed some demos, and @ankur_rastogi19 answered technical questions. Always great to hear how startups #buildwithopenai!

European founders, this is a love letter to you. Today is the last day of summer, and it is time to go all in. We have the opportunity to build enduring, category-defining companies. Not just in enterprise, but also in science, robotics, climate, energy, productivity, finance, health, consumer and more. Yes because of AI. But more so, because we have the talent density and academic depth to do great things with AI. 🧠 Europe produces more STEM graduates per capita than the US or China from institutions like ETH Zurich, TUM, EPFL, Oxford, and KTH. The raw talent is here. 🚀 In the past 5 years, Europe created more unicorns than the previous 20 combined. We're seeing the compounding effects of ecosystem maturity. 🏢 European Startups have created over 3.5M jobs and €520B in value creation. But talent alone isn’t enough. We need to connect it to the courage to start companies. Here. 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: Start the company. Email the professor. Join the club. Find your cofounder. Nothing should stop you. 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐬: You don’t need permission. You need a weekend, a whiteboard, some OpenAI credits and maybe a GPU or two. This is the moment. 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲-𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬: VCs from around the world are investing in Europe more than ever. Build local, go global from day one. You are not behind. You're right on time. Conference season with TechBBQ, SaaStock, Bits and Pretzels, ITW, Slush and others just started. Close your rounds. 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬: Thank you for being examples, always sharing your knowledge and showing what is possible. 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲: Go to the conference, the hackathon, the demo day, the meet-up, the hacker house. Attend OpenAI Build Hours. The energy is electric across the region. Feel the vibes. They are strong, wild, ambitious, here. I’ve built my career believing in EMEA startups, and I know I’m still just getting started. At OpenAI, we’re building with you in mind. To help you ship faster, go further, and win globally out of Europe on your terms. Our team here is growing. If you need help getting started, reach out and join our community. There is no shortage of courage here. Let’s make sure the next wave of transformative technology isn’t just built in Europe, but built because it was born in Europe. 🇪🇺 LFG 🤘

🇫🇷We are hosting a special OpenAI Builder Lab: Paris edition next week with our friends at @joinstationf in Paris on Tuesday. Join me and @romainhuet, @kagigz, @stevenheidel and other @OpenAI tech leaders for a hands on building day. Apply here events.openai.com/openaibuil…

Hey Europe 🇪🇺, you asked and we heard you! Introducing data residency in Europe to help organizations meet local data sovereignty requirements when using @OpenAI products. openai.com/index/introducing…

The best part of an @OpenAI day is seeing @romainhuet delight devs with his demos! @OpenAIDevs

🇸🇪The Swedish startup scene is insane It is a complete ecosystem and let me tell you 5 reasons why it is a complete ecosystem 👇

Our house is kept busy busy this weekend by the #AIShowdown on @lovable with a few projects under way. Good to see even the kids love the @OpenAI taste the best

Come see 8 startups and scale ups we love present at the Vault at the @OpenAI DevDay in London. @parloa_ai @dust4ai @CosineAI @Klarna @tortus_AI @sanalabs @veedstudio @StainlessAPI

If you want to learn more about his journey, the brilliant @gabriel1 recorded a podcast about it, and shares knowledge all the time. Give him a follow. OF COURSE he is European 😍 and he and I will be in Sweden soon to meet founders and devs! Say hi to us!

🇫🇷How to start a good day in Paris? Be at an @OpenAI Builder Lab at @joinstationf, the home of startups, with @romainhuet and @kagigz. #OpenAIenFrance

Finally seeing multiple repeat unicorn founders starting something new in Europe. Smell of success is in the air

The winner of the Paris @cerebral_valley hackathon was definitely @GroqInc Most requested and seen on screen

It requires incredible skill, up to you how you get it!

It takes crazy levels of focus, dedication, practice and competitive spirit of excellence to be at the very top of a sport It is no surprise that athletes who enter the world of venture/tech become so good at it @NicoRosberg is definitely on this path to the top (again) 👀🏆

We hosted our second @OpenAI VC Summit in London for investors from the top funds investing in AI. VCs from the UK, Germany, France, Israel, Sweden and Czech Republic joined me and @nhlhomer as we discussed how we partner with startups, @kagigz showed demos, @oliviergodement discussed the API, and @thefriley had a fireside chat with @sGianella and @Dom_Hallas. We truly believe that some of the best startups of our generation, will come from our market. That the future will be built by the daring and dreamers across all corners of the region, with its vast range of uniquely valuable perspective, experience and technical skill, and will be backed by the best VCs who believe in them here. We are so excited to be here, to be expanding and to partner with Startups in EMEA to help them build faster with us.

I want more hacker houses in Europe If you build it I will come

Very Bullish on European AI With @vriparbelli @antonosika @destraynor @synthesiaIO @lovable @Fin_ai

Back in person @ycombinator Demo Day with @garrytan is 😍🥹 What a great batch! Love to see so many technical founders

Always a pleasure talking about #DeSci, the wave of the future and how we can support founders - especially when with brilliant investors like @svennj @localglobevc @lzakarauskaite @stride_vc @maxmxndt @AminoCollective @0xCousinSY @BackedVC Thank you @DesciLondon

Was just in Munich at Bits and Pretzels and the startup vibes in Germany were so good! I'll be back soon!

Not an @OpenAI DevDay without @sama And not a best of EMEA event without @HarryStebbings interviewing him An end to a great @OpenAIDevs day event!

I’m so excited to talk about all things #DeSci at the @SlushHQ #web3 Day with @lab_dao @FlemingProtocol @opscientia @uselateral #OPSlush22

Love to see VCs back to building @sivesh_sukumar, and doing so well that you get @sriram to demo for you! @elevenlabs x @a16z hackathon on 🗣️🔥

GPT-5 top of all the leaderboard in every category on @lmarena_ai

Some lucky few hundred devs in Paris, got to see @romainhuet and @kagigz today at @dotaiconf in a transatlantic demo. I did say we were cooking 😉 See you all very soon again! 🇫🇷

I love meeting young, hungry entrepreneurs and the quality of them at @cdtm_munich is insane! Very technical, great vision asking all the right questions! Thank you @alex_schmitti for having me at the @lightspeedvp office and for the incredible support to future founders!

By popular demand: Join our OpenAI Startup Community to learn about upcoming events, meetups, monthly Build Hours, and new technical resources. We have lots of fun things cooking! 👉 openai.com/leads/startup/

You learn a lot from @romainhuet and his inspiring demos. And if you know him you have a friend. So wish him Happy Birthday today! 🎂

Hey startups in 🇪🇺 now is the time to go for it! The timing is right. Community matters Building networks pays dividends Knowledge sharing allows you to go further See you out there!

The amazing @kagigz and @OpenAIDevs are doing a special Realtime API demo that taught me a thing or two about how to be a more fun parent when I try to teach my daughter new things!

Let’s go! Change the way you work ❤️

100% I did a similar one for 5 weeks and found Whoop>Garmin>Oura>Apple watch>Fitbit For sleep and activity level Whoop was definitely the best for "readiness" For training alone Garmin won and apple to be surprisingly good on activity tracking (but obvs terrible battery)

openai.com/index/announcing-… The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for @OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately.

If you're in Paris and not at the @MistralAI @cerebral_valley hackathon at @joinstationf are you even in AI? If you're missing @sophiamyang presenting, you're snoozing

If your GTM strategy is in a single market And/or If you don't make it a habit for your team to speak English in the office Then you're really going to struggle

I am loving the European University energy these days. Middle of August and while others are Euro summermaxxing, I have had 5 calls this week alone from new PhD and AI student entrepreneur groups setting themselves up for building and success.

No hackathon with an OpenAI DevDay hoodie spotting

So so well deserved! A star that keeps on rising! 👊🏻👊🏻

If you’re not using @meetgranola are you even in tech? Love to see AI first products that users love, are so easy to use, and create value. Congratulations team Granola, @cjpedregal , @VasZhovner on $43M Series B raise by @natfriedman @lightspeedvp @sparkcapital @Hersh_Desai

4. @ycombinator has a Swedish partner in @gustaf and some of the hottest European startups came through him like @leya_law and one of my favourites Bluebook While @lovable ❤️is the fastest growing startup now with more than 100% growth week over week

We try our hardest and we really try to find the fun in both ❤️

@OpenAI DevDay London has just kicked off by @oliviergodement ! This is very first international DevDay and am so happy it's here in 🇬🇧 Come say hi to me @nhlhomer and @caromcc_ if you're here

Summer for working parents is SO hard. If you want more care or camps it’s a huge additional cost If your family is out of town and you work remotely for help, you’re not in office and may miss things or get questions The guilt of less attention either way is mounting

Merci pour cet accueil d'OpenAI en France 🇫🇷 @ClaraChappaz

@sanalabs and @GeraldParloiu Combining AI with your company’s knowledge can give every employee in your team a superpower And a new $55M round announced on stage!

Beyond excited to to talk to @felixjmartinez_ @seedcamp and @philipchopin @NEA at @WebSummit No one better to hear from than 2 of the best funds in the🌎 about #fundraising growing from #seedfunding to #SeriesA and global expansion Thu. 3pm @AWSstartups stage Pav 2 #WebSummit

🇺🇸Celebrating the week of the 4th of July with @IndexVentures new book Winning in the US: The founder's guide to building a global company from Europe. A book full of learnings, stories of ambition and amazing advice from 500 of the best startups and founders in our market 👉winningintheus.com

1. Sweden is the home of industry leading tech companies like @Spotify, @Klarna, @northvolt, @ZettlebyPayPal, and others you use every day

The Nordics kicking the Fall 25 Euro tech season off strong @TechBBQ in Copenhagen Tuesday Wednesday @shipfr8 demo days in Helsinki Thursday Friday @demodaysai by @StackOneHQ in Stockholm next week ⚔️Let’s go

The Intelligence Age In three words: deep learning worked. This really is the best time to be building

Thank you @SlushHQ for another year of being the best event for founders investors and everyone in between to get together, and for the wonderful partnership. See you all next year ❄️

3. It is home and origin to legendary investors with leading funds making the flywheel work, like @nzennstrom who founded @atomico , @shelgesson who founded @creandum, @_fredrik, @northzoneVC with @pjparson, @eldsjal started @primamateria__, @FlatCapital and @eqtventures keeps investing in gems

YC S24 Demo Day is here and the talent of the European founders is impressive I met with founders from France, UK, Romania, Germany a couple of weeks ago and am very excited to see them present today/tomorrow 🇪🇺✌🏼Look out for the brilliant ones with cool accents @ycombinator

5. @Techarenan is hosting a super startup conference this week with a killer program, where I’m excited to speak alongside great investors and Operators and Friends have the community come together! I look forward to meeting some of the coolest founders and investors in Europe!

A big thank you to @wvce_2022 @SophieWinwood @Foxe_News @ClarisseLam for being organisers extraordinaires of the Women in VC Summit and getting 300+ women together this week

@wvce_2022 This was one of the best conferences I have been to. If for nothing else, for the absolute collaborative spirit of superstar panellists like @rsohoni staying all day outside the theatre to talk, advise and help anyone in the audience who asked for it.

WEB3 AS A CATALYST FOR SCIENCE panel with @gwei_sha of @lab_dao Andre of @FlemingProtocol @hebbianloop and @jmartink of @uselateral at #OPSlush22 🧬🦾💊🔬

Being an entrepreneur/founder is seeing a problem or opportunity and going after it. As best you can. It is NOT going after the one who did. Reminder: if you want to take action for your cause, you always can too.

My girl thinks coding is fun and @imagilabs is definitely helping us make it even more so! Thank you @dorapalfi for the fun and skills If you have a kid and especially a girl, get started on this today

YC has long been a leading indicator of where tech is going and with 26 of 160 companies at @ycombinator W25 Demo Day working on hard tech, I think we have a hard sign.

2. It has founders like @FredrikHjelm4 of @voitechnology, @jschildt of @KRYcare and @joelhellermark of @sanalabs raise from top tier VCs to become best in class in what they do globally while also fostering an entrepreneurial community locally and being amazing angel investors

#Women: if you want to fangirl over an absolutely incredible female founder who created a company for women by women that can actually help you with your money, I got you: @SallieKrawcheck of @Ellevest She calls it like it is and to see her at #MastersofScaleSummit was a treat

What do YOU want to create next? OpenAI's first Super Bowl ad is here 🏈 👏🏼👏🏼 @kate_rouch and the whole incredible Marketing team

It was definitely a great choice!

@StainlessAPI deliver idiomatic SDKs while you stay focused on building the API

Very excited to be at #HumanX2025 next week with my team. Catch our CPO @kevinweil on Monday talking about how AI will transform the human experience on center stage and a Q&A. I’ll be on the infrastructure stage and hanging with the many top investors and Euro founders there!

The @sanalabs summit today was truly the church of AI by @joelhellermark and his team! The PM announcing the Swedish AI Reform
Making AI accessible to 2.3 million Swedes, and agentic AI free for all civil servants, students, teachers, research institutions, and non-profits was an example to all! sanalabs.com/ai-reform

@wvce_2022 thoughts There are 3 narratives of female founders I hear: A. Women who succeeded or failed because they are women B. Women who saw (female) problems because they were women C. Women who are amazing founders who also happen to be women let's strive for C please.

@parloa_ai and @Beevelop AI agents can help customer service employees get better at their job. No language barrier.

@CosineAI and @AlistairPullen Genie is pushing the limits of reasoning across difficult tasks and created models in partnership with @OpenAI that always learns and is built for agentic workflows

Leaving Munich and @bitsandpretzels sure of one thing: Deeply scientific founders building in AI in lesser known corners of Europe are a vibe! 🥨

VivaTech is over but the AI community in Paris 🇫🇷 is definitely still going. Always fun seeing everyone come together with my friend @nico16184 at the @ComptoirAI meet-ups! And what a line up!

I mean just look at the working space

Last year 😉

Sponsoring and being part of #ldnaihackathon was such a vibe! @sarahdrinkwater 🫶🏻 @join_ef 24 hours of fun and magic with #generativeAI in London 👩‍💻

Incredibly excited to be moderating a panel at WebSummit at 4pm with powerhouse Female Investors on investing in Women Founders Thank you @SaloniBhojwani @pinksaltvc, @_lauramcginnis @balderton, @LouisaMesnard @Elaia_Partners Come to @AWSstartups stage Pavillion 2 #womenintech

Can someone please explain to me how and why we collectively agreed to redefine grammar rules and that an apostrophe signifies plural? @Apple please stop autocorrecting my s to 's!

If you want to know how @OpenAI's latest releases can help YOUR business then try out this @ChatGPTapp prompt that can tell you! chatgpt.com/share/680a5563-6…

Hello from Berlin! Join us for 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗚𝗜, 𝗔 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻. Tune in to the livestream, on February 7th at 12.30 CET here piped.video/live/McuO7Osgzqo

Who are also building with an international mindset, often including regulatory variety in the design process, and understanding user heterogeneity across geos.

HR and hiring teams are the unsung real heroes of any company. And if your VC helps you with it, that's golden value add.

Happy birthday @natfriedman !

Follow @GEVS94 breadcrumbs for the pot of European gold. Thank you for always showing up

My 9-year has captured bedtime parenting in our house pretty well today!

Even better, my team and I are based in London and we love love the London/UK and European dev, research and startup ecosystem energy here! I hope we see you in one of our events soon 💪

I love all the science use cases With a background in genomic medicine I feel like there is so much yet to unlock and this makes me truly excited

We kicked off this year's AWS Spotlight Series with a panel and workshop on Fundraising Bias with the ever amazing @triinlinamagi of @sieventures and @monikpham of @pactvc 💪😍 We are so excited to continue to help Female Founders successfully raise and grow their startups 👊

Devs we got you! Tune in in 15 openai.com/live/

Alongside OpenAI announcing that they are growing their startups team in Europe based in London, last week too!

@dust4ai Have reached natural language BI Will join your sources and build custom assistants to speed up your work!

@veedstudio and @sab8a Can create professional level videos based on instructions in 1 minute And just announced live on stage production from a PDF to video in seconds! Wow