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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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Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using an NVIDIA proprietary software development kit (e.g., NVIDIA CUDA toolkit), including their development tools and compilers.
You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
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"decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, translate, adapt, modify, or create derivative works of the LangSmith Platform or Documentation, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code...Excerpt from LangChain's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, translate, adapt, modify, or create derivative works of the LangSmith Platform or Documentation, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code...”
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