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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.

Microsoft is introducing a "deep research" AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot to compete with similar tools from OpenAI and Google.

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ChatGPT's latest image generator, GPT-4o, is now available for everyone for free. Sam Altman said the free tier would get three image generations daily.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot app is getting a deep research tool called Researcher that can access the internet as well as internal data to create long-form reports.

Analyst is based on the o3-mini reasoning model from OpenAI, and Microsoft claims that with chain-of-thought reasoning, it’s capable of turning raw data into spreadsheets, running Python code that you can view while it’s running, and operate on the level of a skilled data scientist, pulling together reports like this one (pdf).

Microsoft is enhancing 365 Copilot with Researcher and Analyst, AI-powered tools for deep research and data analysis.