[linzhangrun]

Yes, use VPN; they are the main clients

[ericmay]

Why do they use a VPN?

[esseph]

Chinese state firewall?

[weird-eye-issue]

Well not just that, OpenAI explicitly blocks them

[ericmay]

Blocks Chinese users or blocks VPNs? Are they the only one?

[weird-eye-issue]

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/supported-countries

You can check for yourself here to see that China and Hong Kong are conveniently missing. We do see blocking from Anthropic and Gemini as well in some regions

Also even though Vietnam and the Philippines are technically supported we do see blocking from some IP addresses in those regions too

[ericmay]

I see - I was just curious. Does China permit citizens from accessing American AI models if they were permitted by the American companies?