PANews reported on March 2 that Mario Nawfal, founder of IBC Group, published an article on the X platform revealing the details of Musk’s interview on Joe Rogan Experience. It is reported that Musk said that DOGE was originally just a joke, and he wanted to use DOGE to name the “Department of Government Efficiency” from the beginning because it was a “boring name” in itself.

When talking about Tesla, Musk said that when he joined Tesla, the company had nothing, no cars and employees, and did not exist in any meaningful form. When talking about OpenAI, Musk said: "OpenAI was my idea. OpenAI should be open source because I want to start something opposite to Google because they don't pay attention to the safety of artificial intelligence."