OpenAI has raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation to further AI research and scale infrastructure.The funding will be aimed at improving AI systems, enhancing human creativity, and paving the way for AGI.OpenAI's ChatGPT has gained popularity, with a new image-generation feature drawing significant user numbers.OpenAI plans to release its first open-weight language model since GPT-2, with a focus on reasoning capabilities.