Vivian Balakrishnan presents Raspberry Pi AI assistant
The AI Engineer Singapore conference opened Day 1 on May 16, 2026, with talks starting at 8:30 a.m. SGT and streamed on YouTube. Singapore Cabinet Minister Vivian Balakrishnan presented as a NanoClaw power user on building a personal AI assistant on a Raspberry Pi. The event organized by Software 3.0 Inc. features engineering contributors from OpenAI, Vercel, Cursor, ElevenLabs, Sakana AI Labs, and Reka AI Labs.
#19Greg Brockman@GDBthe Codex app is in a category of its own. “agentic excel on mac” is an interesting description.
swyx🛬 SFO@swyxgotta say Codex is completely unrecognizable from 3 months ago. guys went extreme founder mode on this thing @gabrielchua was demoing this and i was like “you guys have agentic excel on mac”
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYXgetting ready for our first Cabinet Minister ever speaking not as a politician, but as a @NanoClaw_AI user and AI Engineer!
AI Engineer@aiDotEngineerAll @aiDotEngineer SG talks kick off in 22 mins! Tune in live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xQnSNlBP_w - @VivianBala, NanoClaw power user & Cabinet Minister - @Gavriel_Cohen, creator of NanoClaw - @thsottiaux, Eng lead Codex @OpenAI - @ryolu_, Head of Design @cursor_ai - @dmsobol, Head Research Scientist $CBRS - @feedthejim, @Nextjs Lead @Vercel - @ZixuanLi_, Head of @Zai_org - @ktoya_me, Growth @ElevenLabs - @Stefania_druga, RS, @SakanaAILabs - Jacky Mok, Head of Applied @RekaAILabs - @JukicVedran, CTO @daytonaio - @JanLiphardt, Founder OpenMind - @picocreator, CEO @FeatherlessAI - @lihautan, Lead @SimularAI - @jackminong, RL @PrimeIntellect - @vaishaaant, Cofounder @greptile - @howdymj, Cofounder Bluelabs - @PhilHedayatnia, CEO Airfoil - @linhkid91, Head of AI @Obello - @vamonke, Founding Voltade - @GokulKrishnaSr1, President, Antim - Nibblepuff, Tech Lead @usebland - @swyx and too many others to count! join in!
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYXholy shit lmao @Gavriel_Cohen he's seriously using this thing for conducting the foreign policy/parliamentary affairs of singapore - and sharing his stack on how he is hacking around WhatsApp and doing graph memory on SQLite
wtf is this vibecoded country man
AI Engineer@aiDotEngineerAll @aiDotEngineer SG talks kick off in 22 mins! Tune in live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xQnSNlBP_w - @VivianBala, NanoClaw power user & Cabinet Minister - @Gavriel_Cohen, creator of NanoClaw - @thsottiaux, Eng lead Codex @OpenAI - @ryolu_, Head of Design @cursor_ai - @dmsobol, Head Research Scientist $CBRS - @feedthejim, @Nextjs Lead @Vercel - @ZixuanLi_, Head of @Zai_org - @ktoya_me, Growth @ElevenLabs - @Stefania_druga, RS, @SakanaAILabs - Jacky Mok, Head of Applied @RekaAILabs - @JukicVedran, CTO @daytonaio - @JanLiphardt, Founder OpenMind - @picocreator, CEO @FeatherlessAI - @lihautan, Lead @SimularAI - @jackminong, RL @PrimeIntellect - @vaishaaant, Cofounder @greptile - @howdymj, Cofounder Bluelabs - @PhilHedayatnia, CEO Airfoil - @linhkid91, Head of AI @Obello - @vamonke, Founding Voltade - @GokulKrishnaSr1, President, Antim - Nibblepuff, Tech Lead @usebland - @swyx and too many others to count! join in!
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYX@Gavriel_Cohen and @thsottiaux casually dropping some hints on the Codex roadmap in his keynote!
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYX@Gavriel_Cohen @thsottiaux head of AI Govtech at Singapore estimates 1.3 billion agents in the country in the next 2 years and is building a national MCP gateway @dsp_
swyx🛬 SFO@swyx@Gavriel_Cohen and @thsottiaux casually dropping some hints on the Codex roadmap in his keynote!
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYX@Gavriel_Cohen ok unc has aura
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYX@Gavriel_Cohen full talk
Kyle@zeroxkyleThis is amazing - we have Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs @VivianBala explaining how he uses a Nanoclaw on Raspberry PI This is a gem; He says the barriers to accessibility have collapsed - his setup was not created by him; and that memory is the next frontier (LOL)
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYX@Gavriel_Cohen i have to say his social media team is better than mine wtf. first pull on youtube.
swyx🛬 SFO@swyx@Gavriel_Cohen full talk
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYXgotta say Codex is completely unrecognizable from 3 months ago. guys went extreme founder mode on this thing
@gabrielchua was demoing this and i was like “you guys have agentic excel on mac”
swyx🛬 SFO@swyx@Gavriel_Cohen and @thsottiaux casually dropping some hints on the Codex roadmap in his keynote!
#214swyx🛬 SFO@SWYX@gabrielchua the agentic excel thing is basically what u get when u expand the side panel to be the main thing
jason@jxnlcojason from the codex team here, heres a draft on codex maxxing and the primatives i use on a daily basis https://jxnl.github.io/blog/writing/2026/05/10/codex-maxxing/ would love any feedback
#1163Stefania Druga@STEFANIA_DRUGAMost inspiring minister I heard present!
swyx🛬 SFO@swyxholy shit lmao @Gavriel_Cohen he's seriously using this thing for conducting the foreign policy/parliamentary affairs of singapore - and sharing his stack on how he is hacking around WhatsApp and doing graph memory on SQLite wtf is this vibecoded country man
