Alibaba has engineers in Hongkong, Singapore, North America. It’s a global corporation
replywhen i was in hongkong, chatgpt and gemini were disabled. Maybe this has changed though. When I was in China, the corporate vpn (zscaler) routed traffic through hk
replyThis has changed (in a nit-picky way) - Gemini is now generally available to the public in Hong Kong.
replyChatGPT and Claude are not available. Generally my impression is that OpenAI isn't that anal about service providers reselling ChatGPT in Hong Kong, but Anthropic seems to really strict about the "no China" thingy.
But you just said in hk they were disabled? So through a hk vpn still disabled?
replySame way every ban is evaded, smurfing
replyThere is a reason Singapore tops the rank on Claude usage
replythe government also actively promotes AI usage in work environments
replySource?
replyDoes Alibaba only have developers in the China?
replyDid china invent VPNs yet?
replyCc can be used with non Anthropic models.
replyThe same way they buy "banned" and "sanctioned" NVIDIA GPUs.
reply> how can they still use claude?
replyWorkarounds aside, it says Claude Code not Claude.
i.e. they are using the CLI running any model. You can for instance run GLM with it.
one possibility:
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