OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, responding to a reporter's question, explicitly stated that the company name OpenAI will not be changed to OpenSI. Altman believes that although the concept of superintelligence is attracting increasing attention, people will still habitually refer to it as AI, making a name change pointless.
The context for OpenAI's statement is that Altman had previously publicly acknowledged the difficulty of changing product names. According to reports, Altman said on a podcast that the name ChatGPT is "terrible," but it is now ubiquitous and cannot be changed. This pragmatic attitude toward brand inertia is consistent with his response regarding the OpenSI rename.
OpenAI will not be renamed OpenSI
According to previous reports, U.S. President Trump told media on September 29 that he met with tech company leaders including Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Zuckerberg at the White House, officially renaming "artificial intelligence" to "superintelligence." On October 4, Elon Musk stated on a social platform that SpaceX is a superintelligence (SI) company and they will rename SpaceXAI to "SpaceXSI."
Notably, capital markets have already priced in the likelihood of an OpenAI rename. According to data from prediction market platform Polymarket, the implied probability of OpenAI officially renaming to OpenSI before December 31, 2026 is only about 3%, reflecting the market's near-total expectation that OpenAI will not undertake such a rebranding.
Meanwhile, some tech marketing experts believe that because the term "superintelligence" already has an established meaning, this rename is unlikely to be accepted by the entire industry. This also indirectly validates the soundness of Altman's judgment: there is a chasm between the academic precision of terminology and public usage habits that cannot be bridged in the short term.