Here's my opinion.<p>"Apprentice is Barred from this AI race" is the phrase.<p>"You (OpenAI) Apprentice are Barred from this AI race, because, well you are just apprentice"<p>"Because you are still an apprentice, you (OpenAI) are prohibited from participating in this AI race."<p>To be clear, that is not my personal opinion of OpenAI, I believe OpenAI brought so much innovation to this LLM space.<p>Just sharing what came into my head, why Google picked that name.<p>To counter Sun Microsystems' dominance in the Java market, IBM named its IDE as "Eclipse."( blocking Sun).