BEIJING, June 25 (Reuters) - ChatGPT maker OpenAI is

planning to block access to technology used to build artificial

intelligence products for entities in China and some other

countries, a Chinese state-owned newspaper reported on Tuesday.

ChatGPT is not available in mainland China but many Chinese

startups have been able to access OpenAI's application

programming interface (API) platform and use it to build their

own applications, the Securities Times said.

It added that since late Monday, Chinese users of the

platform have received emails warning they are in a "region that

OpenAI does not currently support" and that additional measures

to block API traffic from some regions would be taken starting

July 9.

Numerous Chinese companies have released chatbots powered by

their own AI models over the past year.