🍭 Most Valuable Private Company 💰

Good morning. Woke up this morning, opened ChatGPT, and it was somehow giving me therapy and stock tips.

Terrifyingly efficient.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• OpenAI’s $500B Flex

• AI Search is the “Google it” moment.

• 5 Micro Stories 

• 5 Fresh AI Launches

_ToolBox™
🧙‍♂️ 5 BRAND NEW drops in AI You Need to Know About

🪄 Dreamlit AI
→ Email automation in plain English—no flow builders, just vibes.

🧩 Merge Agent Handler
→ Power your AI agents with enterprise-ready tools via MCP, from auth to observability.

🕹️ Caesr AI
→ Let AI control real apps across web, desktop, and mobile—end-to-end task execution.

⚙️ Instruct
→ Automate anything with a single prompt—chain tools, ship workflows, skip glue code.

🎯 Glazed AI
→ Turn Figma files into production-ready tracking in minutes—no manual tag soup.

_OpenAI
💰 The Most Valuable Private Company In The World

The Bite: OpenAI just pulled off the rarest Silicon Valley magic trick:

Becoming the world’s most valuable private company at a cool $500B.

The secondary sale gave employees $6.6B in cash-out liquidity, and suddenly Sam Altman is king of the private markets.

It’s historic, sure.
But also… are you surprised?

ChatGPT didn’t just win hype, it broke AI into the group chat.

It became the app people knew before they even knew what an LLM was. 

That’s not just product-market fit, that’s complete and total cultural distribution.

Snacks:

• $500B flex: Employee share sale crowns OpenAI the top private co.

• $6.6B payday: Current and ex-staff cashed out in the deal.

• SpaceX dethroned: Musk’s rocket ship was sitting near $400B.

• Buy-in club: SoftBank, Thrive, Abu Dhabi’s MGX, and friends joined.

• $12B run-rate: ChatGPT demand keeps feeding the money machine.

Why it bites: Moats aren’t always tech. They are usually attention.

OpenAI built the front door to AI for the world.

And when grandma knows the brand, the market’s already won.

Congrats to them. But not surprised.

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🧠 You Need to Know

🗣️ OpenAI Staff Weigh In on Sora

→ Current and former researchers voiced mixed concerns over OpenAI’s TikTok-style Sora app and its fit with the company’s mission; Sam Altman defended the push.

⚖️ Dutch Court Orders Meta Timeline Changes

→ A Hague court told Meta to offer a “direct and simple” way to keep non-profiled timelines on Facebook and Instagram within two weeks; Meta will appeal.

🛰️ Spacecoin Sends Blockchain Tx via Satellite

→ Spacecoin said it relayed an encrypted blockchain transaction through its CTC-0 demo satellite, a step toward a decentralized “Starmesh” internet.

📈 DeepL Explores U.S. IPO, Report Says

→ DeepL is considering a U.S. listing as soon as next year, potentially seeking up to a $5B valuation, according to Bloomberg reporting.

🎨 Perplexity Picks Up Visual Electric Team

→ Perplexity acquired the team behind Sequoia-backed Visual Electric; the product will shut down in 90 days as staff join a new Agent Experiences group.

Warp
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• #1 coding agent: Tops benchmarks, delivering more accurate code out of the box.

• Tight feedback loop: Built-in code review and editing lets devs quickly spot issues, hand-edit, or reprompt.

• 1-2 hours saved per day with Warp: All thanks to Warp's 97% diff acceptance rate.

Get time back:
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Steal This Prompt
🧘‍♀️ WorkLifeGPT: Balance Without Burnout

Build a personalized, time-blocked schedule that balances work, self-care, hobbies, and time with your people—so your week stops feeling like a boss fight.

Absurd uses: plan “leg day + LEGO day,” or map a rom-com montage week with spa breaks between standups.

1. Click this link for the prompt

2. Copy the prompt

3. Replace the #’s with your hours, habits, and non-negotiables

4. Suddenly you have evenings again

   
   🍭 Try the prompt on Snack Prompt 🍭

Perplexity
🔎 The New Default: Ask, Don’t Query

The Bite: Perplexity just opened up its secret sauce.

With the new Perplexity Search API, any app can now drop in the same engine that powers Perplexity’s own answers.

In the future, and some of you now, you won’t have to bounce to Google just to type in a question.
Apps themselves will handle it.

That might sound small, but it’s a massive shift.
Back in the dot-com boom, search was the same shift (Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Google).

Now?
Search is turning into a feature, baked right into everything we use.

Snacks:

• Open for all: Devs can plug straight into Perplexity’s answer engine.

• Web-scale index: Crawling “hundreds of billions” of pages nonstop.

• Granular answers: Returns ranked snippets, not just full docs.

• Always updating: Index refreshes tens of thousands of times per sec.

• Ready to build: API, SDK, and eval tools dropped in the launch pack.

Why it Bites: We’re watching the moment search stops being a destination and starts living everywhere.

Just like Amazon and Google rewired the internet in the 2000s, Perplexity is showing how this era will work:

You ask, it answers, right where you are.