Microsoft is reportedly selling access to OpenAI models to major Chinese technology companies through Azure, with ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent among the buyers, while the traffic is served from offshore cloud facilities including Singapore rather than from Microsoft’s mainland...
Microsoft is reportedly selling OpenAI-powered AI services to major Chinese companies through Azure, with ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent among significant customers, despite OpenAI itself not offering direct API access in mainland China. The arrangement exposes the awkward middle...
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