OpenAI Pulls the Plug on China - by Yiwen Lu - ChinaTalk

We’re excited to welcome Yiwen Lu onto the team as a staff writer on China and AI with her inaugural piece! She joins us after a year at The New York Times as a 2023-2024 Reporting Fellow. Late last month, developers in China lost API access to OpenAI’s services, according to screenshots of emails circulating on social media. OpenAI said that it was part of the steps it was taking “to block API traffic from regions that are not on our supported countries and territories list,” which does not include mainland China, Hong Kong, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Through APIs, developers can integrate OpenAI’s machine learning models into their own applications. This change will mostly affect developers building ChatGPT wrappers, apps that are powered by ChatGPT, as well as local LLM developers who train their models with OpenAI outputs. It’s also a sign of the US extending the scope of export controls from hardware to software. In this article, we will explore: Why OpenAI made this decision;

We’re excited to welcome Yiwen Lu onto the team as a staff writer on China and AI with her inaugural piece! She joins us after a year at The New York Times as a 2023-2024 Reporting Fellow. Late last month, developers in China lost API access to OpenAI’s services, according to screenshots of emails circulating on social media. OpenAI said that it was part of the steps it was taking “to block API traffic from regions that are not on our supported countries and territories list,” which does not include mainland China, Hong Kong, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Through APIs, developers can integrat