On January 31st, the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI is in early talks for a large-scale funding round, valuing the company at $340 billion, more than double what it was in October last year. The ChatGPT maker is discussing a funding round of up to $40 billion. This follows reports that SoftBank Group is considering investing between $15 billion and $25 billion in OpenAI. OpenAI and other top artificial intelligence companies have committed billions of dollars in data, talent and physic...