[zirkonit]

Very conspicuous list of available countries. Both English and non-English, from the most rich to some of the poorest and non-digital countries in the world, both democratic countries and brutal absolute dictatorships... yet the absentees are classic "enemy" countries - Russia, China, Syria, Iran.

Unfortunately, technology is, once again, not exempt from politics.

[HWR_14]

US export restrictions blacklist a few countries for various things. In total (except for China) the combined economies are so small it makes sense to just not do business with them rather than figure out if you can.

[riazrizvi]

Play fair or we won’t let you play our game. Seems universal to me.

[FR10]

Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela are not on the list but Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia are...

[diimdeep]

> Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

> The API is not available in this country.

Sure.

[YetAnotherNick]

Any reason why Vietnam could be missing? Also including Iraq and not including Saudi Arabia is interesting.

[capableweb]

The government of Vietnam could be considered Marxist–Leninist/Socialist, so it's on the list of forever enemies of the US government and many businesses.

[pphysch]

Except when it comes to "containing China", when Washington loves them.

[frakkingcylons]

Regarding Syria and Iran - that's not up to OpenAI. OFAC made that decision for them.