Enabling Access to Tana's AI Functions for Chinese Academic Users Through Custom Routing

Explain the problem as you see it

Most Chinese students & professors cannot directly access OpenAI services. They rely on makeshift forwarding addresses to utilize AI capabilities, circumventing geographic restrictions on OpenAI traffic.

Why is this a problem for you?

This workaround restricts Tana's reach for Chinese academics. Allowing configurable routing would enable full access to Tana's AI for learning/education despite the region blocks.

Suggest a solution

I suggest implementing:

1. API_URL_REDIRECT setting to route via proxies to OpenAI. This would let Chinese users redirect blocked traffic.

Or

2. Customizable openai.api_base for user-defined infrastructure routing. Allows customized backends.

Option for users to set API endpoints for non-OpenAI services. Supports future AI backend expansion.
With configurable proxying and routing, Tana could leverage various infrastructure to grant full access despite geographic restrictions. Students & professors would then benefit from unhindered AI capabilities.