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The Internet Just Got Ghbilified — And Everything Else Changed Too

This week was a lot. From AI models flexing their muscles to billion-dollar valuations and surprise acquisitions, the tech world is on fire — and it’s being animated in full Studio Ghibli style.

Let’s break it down.

OpenAI’s Ghbilification Moment

OpenAI’s new image generation model went viral this week, flooding timelines with dreamy, Ghibli-style creations. The wave of attention was so intense it eclipsed a major milestone: OpenAI reportedly hit a $300B valuation and racked up 1 million users within 60 minutes of launching the feature. In the age of infinite scroll, attention is the asset — and OpenAI just proved it knows how to capture it better than anyone.

CoreWeave IPO Signals AI Bull Market

GPU cloud giant CoreWeave hit NASDAQ with a splash. After a volatile opening, the stock bounced back, signaling investor appetite for the infrastructure layer of AI. It’s another data point in the growing case that we’re still in the early innings of the AI bull market — and CoreWeave might be its NVIDIA-powered backbone.

xAI Acquires X

In what might be the most consequential deal of the month (or year?), Elon Musk’s xAI has officially acquired X. Beyond the headlines, this gives xAI access to the best real-time social data in the world, integrated directly into Grok — which now also lives on Telegram. It’s a major unlock for building context-aware agents. Bullish on bots.

A New World’s Best AI Model — But No One Noticed

Quietly, Google dropped what might be the new world’s best model. It outperforms on reasoning, context window, response speed, and even coding — but barely made a dent in the conversation. Why? Ghibli memes dominated the timeline. It’s a reminder: in the attention economy, superior tech without a narrative gets lost in the noise. Google’s likely to lean B2B, but OpenAI’s B2C mastery is winning mindshare.

Cursor Raises at $9.6B — and VibeCoding is Here

Cursor, the startup pushing the frontier of “vibecoding,” raised $625M led by a16z and Thrive. Valued at $9.6B, Cursor is building the tools for coding via vibes and prompts — not syntax. With demos like Flappy Bird in Unreal Engine built purely via natural language, they’re also pioneering Model Context Protocols (MCPs) that could become standard.

From memetic virality to enterprise quiet killers, this week showed us both sides of the AI coin. And the game’s just getting started.