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And IBM stands for International Business Machines. It didn’t make selling business machines internationally illegal. As far as I can see, OpenAI invented that term. Don’t see why they couldn’t trademark it.


Yep. This is pearl clutching. Not HN at its best. Most commenters here don’t seem to really have any grasp of trademark law at all.


It first came from Google. They didn’t invent it.


Google released the paper on transformers. Didn't OpenAI coin the term for generative, pre-trained ones?


Can you point to where Google used the abbreviation "GPT" to refer to one of it's models or the architecture in general?


Google it.




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