India, March 19 -- Sam Altman said that OpenAI may not be the most ideal name for the artificial intelligence company. The CEO who cofounded the company along with Elon Musk and others in 2015 shared his view about the name of the company on Lex Fridman's podcast. He said that when the company was just getting started, they didn't quite know what it was going to be owing to which they did not think much about the name.

"Speaking of going back with an Oracle, I'd pick a different name," he said.

"We started off just thinking we were going to be a research lab and having no idea about how this technology was going to go," he said, adding, "This was before we had any idea about an API or selling access to a chatbot. It was before we had an...