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The prohibition prevents users from leveraging Anthropic's Services to build competing AI products or otherwise commercially exploit the Services through resale.
Interpretive note: The excerpt begins with 'To develop...', which reads as a fragment of a larger prohibited-uses list. The prohibition is clear but the surrounding structure is not fully visible, which introduces minor uncertainty about whether additional conditions or qualifications appear elsewhere in the clause.
Users who wish to develop AI or machine learning products, or who intend to resell access to the Services, are contractually barred from doing so using Anthropic's Services.
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The prohibition prevents users from leveraging Anthropic's Services to build competing AI products or otherwise commercially exploit the Services through resale.
Users who wish to develop AI or machine learning products, or who intend to resell access to the Services, are contractually barred from doing so using Anthropic's Services.
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