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Craig Hale

OpenAI may not be available in China — but Microsoft Azure China might offer an unexpected loophole

A representational concept of a social media network.

Despite OpenAI’s recent announcement that it would leave the Chinese market by enforcing its policy to block users in nations outside of officially supported markets, many Chinese customers may still be able to use the GPT-powered AI chatbot.

Although the likes of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent have been rushing to fill the void left by California-based OpenAI, fans of ChatGPT can still use a very similar service through a Microsoft-enabled loophole.

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