OpenAI's text-generating AI chatbot, ChatGPT, has garnered significant popularity, with over 100 million weekly active users and heavy investment from Fortune 500 companies. The company recently announced updates including GPT-4 Turbo, a multimodal API, and a GPT store, connecting ChatGPT to the internet and integrating DALL-E 3 for text and image generation. OpenAI is exploring the use of AI in education, facing criticism for potentially harmful content, and experienced outages due to a DDoS attack. However, the company has introduced new features such as GPT-4 Turbo and a text-to-speech model, and is considering Sam Altman's return as CEO.

OpenAI's ChatGPT: A Growing AI Chatbot