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Musk pitched naming OpenAI 'Freemind' in jab at Google, emails to Altman show

Elon Musk was called as the first witness in the civil trial pitting him against Sam Altman. Bloomberg/Getty Images Courtroom exhibits show Elon Musk once pitched "Freemind" for OpenAI's name. In emails with Sam Altman, Musk framed the name as a "philosophical counter" to Google's AI lab. Altman wasn't totally sold and offered up the name "Axon" or "something related to Turing." Newly-revealed courtroom exhibits in the blockbuster case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman show how OpenAI nearly...