Microsoft is discontinuing its Azure OpenAI service for individual developers in China due to regulatory requirements.
Earlier this year, OpenAI stopped offering its products and services to developers in China. At that time, Microsoft said it would continue to offer its Azure OpenAI Service in China and would continue to provide access to eligible customers in the country via models deployed in regions outside of China. Since then, Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI was the only way for developers to access OpenAI’s latest models.
Microsoft has started sending email notices to developers in China that it will stop serving the Azure OpenAI service to individual developers in mainland China from October 21st.
