Agencies
Chinese artificial intelligence companies are moving quickly to draw in users of OpenAI’s technology amid reports of the U.S. firm’s plans to restrict access in China and other countries to its application programming interface (API), a platform that allows developers of other products to integrate its AI models.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is planning to block access to technology used to build AI products for entities in China and some other countries, Chinese state-owned newspaper Securities Times reported on Tuesday.
ChatGPT is not available in mainland China, but many Chinese startups can access OpenAI’s API platform and use it to build their own applications, the Securities Times said.
Since late Monday, Chinese platform users have received emails warning that they are in a “region that OpenAI does not currently support” and that additional measures to block API traffic from unsupported regions will be taken starting July 9.
