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This restricts competitive uses of the platform and prevents public disclosure of performance data, limiting the Customer's ability to evaluate or publicize how the platform performs relative to alternatives.
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The updated terms introduce a new deployment architecture option (BYOC) alongside existing Cloud and Hybrid options, giving customers more control over infrastructure placement. LangChain's explicit commitment to not use customer data for large language model training now has clear written language in the Terms, whereas the prior version only referenced 'products' generically. However, the expanded non-warranty clause now states the platform is not warranted to be 'accurate' or 'complete,' which broadens the disclaimers of liability. Customers should review which deployment option aligns with their infrastructure and compliance requirements.
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"use the LangSmith Platform to develop a similar or competing product or service, or to publish or disclose benchmarks, performance results, or comparative information regarding the LangSmith PlatformExcerpt from LangChain's Terms of Service
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This restricts competitive uses of the platform and prevents public disclosure of performance data, limiting the Customer's ability to evaluate or publicize how the platform performs relative to alternatives.
You are prohibited from using the platform to build a competing product and from publicly sharing any benchmarks, performance results, or comparative information about the platform.
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