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This restriction prevents users from gaining access to Meta's proprietary technical infrastructure and extends the prohibition to assisting third parties in doing so.
The updated terms remove developer restrictions that previously applied to large-scale platforms, meaning companies with more than 700 million monthly active users can now access Meta's AI models without special permission. The terms also eliminate the restriction on EU developers accessing multimodal models and consolidate account management under either managed accounts or Meta accounts. Developers previously subject to these restrictions should review whether the updated terms now permit their use case.
View change record →The updated terms authorize Meta to retain user-submitted content if its systems flag the content for a potential policy violation, in addition to retention tied to legal compliance and contractual rights. This expands the circumstances under which content may be preserved without explicit time limits. Under the revised language, content retention decisions may now be driven by automated policy-violation flagging in addition to legal or contractual necessity. Developers integrating the Llama API should understand that flagged content may be retained indefinitely pending policy review.
View change record →The reader may not attempt to uncover, reconstruct, or help anyone else uncover the technical internals of the Services.
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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 agree not to modify, display, adapt, translate, loan, distribute, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Software.
The Services are intended for business use by corporate or business entities, and you agree that you will not use the Services for any personal or individual use.
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"you will not...reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt or assist others to derive the underlying models, algorithms, weights, or source code of the Services...— Excerpt from Meta's Llama API Terms of Service
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This restriction prevents users from gaining access to Meta's proprietary technical infrastructure and extends the prohibition to assisting third parties in doing so.
The reader may not attempt to uncover, reconstruct, or help anyone else uncover the technical internals of the Services.
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