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This clause restricts specific proprietary components to NVIDIA Platform hardware, preventing their use on non-NVIDIA systems.
Customers may only run NVIDIA SDKs (such as CUDA toolkit, TensorRT, cuDNN), NVIDIA drivers, and NVIDIA Omniverse on systems that include NVIDIA Platforms.
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Delete or modify any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels that you upload to any communication feature;
modify the Services, including, but not limited to, by removing identification, copyright or other proprietary notices from the Content or the Services
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...)
"The following proprietary Software components are licensed solely to run on systems with NVIDIA Platforms: (a) NVIDIA software development kits (such as CUDA toolkit, TensorRT, cuDNN), (b) NVIDIA drivers, and (c) NVIDIA Omniverse.Excerpt from NVIDIA NIM's NVIDIA AI Foundation Models AUP
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This clause restricts specific proprietary components to NVIDIA Platform hardware, preventing their use on non-NVIDIA systems.
Customers may only run NVIDIA SDKs (such as CUDA toolkit, TensorRT, cuDNN), NVIDIA drivers, and NVIDIA Omniverse on systems that include NVIDIA Platforms.
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