AI ROLLUP: ChatGPT's Viral Explosion | xAI Acquires X | Coreweave IPO Rocks Markets

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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AI heats up, markets shake, and the internet gets Ghbilified. OpenAI hits 1M users in 60 minutes, CoreWeave IPO rocks NASDAQ, and XAI acquires X. A new “world’s best” model quietly drops—did Google just take the lead? Cursor raises at a $9.6B valuation as “vibecoding” enters the mainstream. Welcome back to another week of the AI Rollup. ------ 📣CRYPTO TAX CALCULATOR | TAXES MADE EASY https://bankless.cc/Cryptotaxcalculator ------ 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF https://bankless.cc/Self 🏦INFINEX | THE CRYPTO-EVERYTHING APP https://bankless.cc/Infinex ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 00:00:00 The Ghibli Effect https://x.com/alifarhat79/status/1904884015858884884 https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1906831621166440583 00:05:09 Coreweave IPO https://www.ft.com/content/519006a9-82c6-4939-afa1-58921a399105 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/01/coreweave-shares-bounce-ipo-price.html https://x.com/TheStalwart/status/1907438208662552647 00:14:28 xAI Acquires X https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312?s=46 00:20:02 Grok's Telegram Integration 00:24:38 New Best Model Has Arrived https://x.com/bookwormengr/status/1905050740110090429?s=46 https://x.com/gfodor/status/1904980153329242147?s=46 00:32:09 Cursor And The Vibe Coding Explosion https://x.com/ArfurRock/status/1906768733135098360 00:39:02 AI Crypto Trend Update https://x.com/defi0xjeff/status/1904154090424402163?s=46 00:45:47 BillyBets March Madness https://x.com/playprophetx/status/1899535745435742608?s=46 https://x.com/bunchubets/status/1904224002123473294?s=46 00:56:51 Olas https://olas.network/ 01:01:32 Vana https://x.com/anna_kazlauskas/status/1905414468315549737?s=46 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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0:00.0	Welcome Bankless Nation to the AI rollup, where we stay up to speed with all the emerging
0:07.9	trends, developments, drama in the AI crypto space. I'm David Hoffman here with my co-host at Jaws.
0:12.5	How's your week, my man? What's up, dude? You know that meme of Dave Chappelle kind of like
0:19.3	scratching his neck? and he's like,
0:21.6	you got any more of that stuff, David?
0:23.6	That was me for the last two weeks because we've got a ton of AI updates to kind of go through on this episode.
0:29.6	We skipped an episode last week.
0:31.6	Sorry for all those, the regular consumers of the AI roll-up.
0:34.6	Just schedules didn't work, but we're back with a double dose of AI.
0:38.5	Yeah.
0:38.9	And there is a lot to go through.
0:40.5	Some really important stuff happened over the last week, David.
0:43.0	For example, the most contentious and polaric events ever were giblified and animated
0:50.2	to be made super cute.
0:52.3	We all got a new word into our, like like vernacular, which is giblification.
0:57.2	Yeah.
0:57.7	And it refers to a studio jibbley style of artistic animation, which took over Twitter and the world,
1:05.8	essentially, because the folks at OpenAI basically integrated this new feature, which allows
1:10.7	anyone to upload an image and, you know, giblify it per se.
1:15.2	So it made the world pretty cute.
1:16.0	It gives generalized artistic direction to what they want that photo to be like amended to.
1:20.7	And then everyone was like, make it studio Ghibli.
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