In late March 2025, social media became inundated with a viral new trend thanks to ChatGPT’s image generator going public for all users, which took the internet by storm almost immediately. Folks flocked to the AI with requests to recreate photos of themselves as Studio Ghibli characters in a fad that was impossible to

OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o boosted user growth after its Ghibli-style image creation feature took off.Microsoft stands to benefit from OpenAI's growth, wrote Jefferies.OpenAI's latest $40 billion funding round raised its valuation to $300 billion.

ChatGPT's new image generator capabilities are now available for free users, including the viral Studio Ghibli transformation tool.

OpenAI's ChatGPT saw record-breaking user growth following its latest rollout, causing GPU capacity challenges for the company.

In just a week of the image-generation feature on ChatGPT, Indian users stormed the internet with memes and "ghiblified" images, so much so that even OpenAI, ChatGPT's parent,

The frenzy to create Ghibli-style AI art using ChatGPT's image-generation tool led to a record surge in users for OpenAI's chatbot last week, straining its servers and temporarily limiting the feature's usage.

With the introduction of ChatGPT's new image generation feature, Ghibli-style images began trending on social media. People started creating photos in the style of Studio Ghibli.

ChatGPT’s new image generation feature, launched last week, has become immensely popular, with over 130 million users creating 700 million images. India is the fastest growing market for ChatGPT, as noted by OpenAI’s COO and CEO,

ChatGPT's popular GPT-4o image generation tool that creates Studio Ghibli-style images is now available to everyone, including free users.