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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says in hindsight, the name may not be apt for the AI company.
- Elon Musk, who helped cofound OpenAI, has argued that it should not be called "open" if it's not open-source.
- Altman said though the company's tech may not be entirely open-source, it is open in other ways.
Sam Altman suggested OpenAI may not be the most ideal name for the artificial intelligence company — at least in hindsight.
The 38-year-old OpenAI CEO — who cofounded the company along with Elon Musk and others in 2015 — explained on Lex Fridman's podcast that when the company was just getting started, they didn't quite know what it was going to be.