Elon Musk considered calling OpenAI 'Freeman' because of the bonkers rationale that the Half-Life protagonist represented 'what we are essentially trying to achieve'
… The Valve book Raising the Bar, about Half-Life 2's development, contains the story of how Freeman got his name: writer Marc Laidlaw originally named the character Dyson Poincaré after philosopher Freeman Dyson and mathematician Henri Poincaré. …