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OpenTable references restaurants tables and times that are still open to be reserved.

What contextual definition of "open" does OpenAI have? A website open to subscribers?

An open API you can build products off of. Consider the alternative. They could not let anyone use their models and just release AI products (their own search engine, their own version of Teams, their own self driving car software, their own photoshop competitor, etc).

This is revisionist history. OpenAI very much started as a (somewhat) open source (for whatever definition of "open" makes sense for LLMs) initiative.

I’m not arguing they stuck with their original position. I’m saying the name is still reasonable. I don’t care if they changed positions.

A website open to subscribers?

You can scoff at this but Google's models weren't available at any price before today.

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