Musk: OpenAI was my idea. I wanted to name it "Ministry of Government Efficiency" after DOGE from the beginning.

Mario Nawfal, founder of IBC Group, revealed details about Musk's interview on the Joe Rogan Experience on the X platform. Musk said that DOGE was originally just a joke and he initially wanted to name it "Ministry of Efficiency" because it was a "boring name" in itself. When talking about Tesla, Musk said that when he joined Tesla, the company had nothing, no cars, no employees, and did not exist in any meaningful form. Regarding OpenAI, Musk said: "OpenAI was my idea. OpenAI should be open source because I wanted to do something opposite to Google, because they do not focus on the safety of artificial intelligence."