All of the news and updates about OpenAI continue below. OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a new investment round led by SoftBank, vaulting the company to a $300 billion valuation. It’s the largest funding round for a private tech company in history, according to CNBC.

The start-up’s valuation, which has nearly doubled in six months, shows continued enthusiasm for A.I. among investors.

ChatGPT is OpenAI’s chatbot model designed to operate in a “conversational way.” It was launched on Nov. 30, 2022 as a sibling to OpenAI’s InstructGPT, which was trained to follow instructions more than have a dialogue with users.

The company warns against applying strong supervision to chatbots, as they will continue lying and just not admit it.

MIT and OpenAI teamed up to study how AI chatbots are making people feel. Where users ended up depends on where they started.

OpenAI said on Monday it would raise up to $40 billion in a new funding round led by SoftBank Group 9984.T at a $300 billion valuation to advance AI research, expand computational infrastructure and enhance its tools.

The Studio Ghibli frenzy continues, and OpenAI's team is still struggling to manage the surge a week after launching the image generation tool. CEO Sam Altman warns that due to the overload, users should expect system breakages and delays in product releases.

OpenAI said that, beginning Tuesday, this new version of ChatGPT would be available to people using both the free and paid versions of the chatbot. This includes both ChatGPT Plus, a $20-a-month service, and ChatGPT Pro, a $200-a-month service that provides access to all of the company’s latest tools.

OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week. But how does interacting with it affect us? Does it make us more or less lonely? These are some of the questions OpenAI set out to investigate, in partnership with the MIT Media Lab, in a pair of new studies .