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Certain NIM microservices designated as Community Products may be used without a subscription if used on a PC or workstation with qualifying NVIDIA GPUs and not deployed in commercial kiosks, servers, or multi-user systems; other uses require a subscription or program license.
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This provision defines the boundary conditions for subscription-free use of designated NIM Community Products, specifically excluding commercial kiosk, server, and multi-user system deployments. Organizations that initially deploy NIMs on workstations and subsequently scale to server or multi-user environments may cross into subscription-required territory, creating a licensing transition point that procurement teams should monitor.
Interpretive note: The document does not define 'commercial kiosk' or 'system used to service multiple users,' which may create interpretive ambiguity for edge-case deployments such as shared developer workstations or embedded devices with multiple concurrent users.
The agreement permits subscription-free use of designated NIM Community Products on RTX or GeForce RTX GPU-equipped PCs or workstations only; deployment in commercial kiosks, servers, or multi-user environments requires a separate subscription or program license.
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"NVIDIA inference microservices (NIMs) designated by NVIDIA for use with NVIDIA RTX, GeForce RTX GPUs or NVIDIA Grace-Blackwell client systems as a Community Product may be used without the purchase of a Subscription or Services if such NIMs are: (a) used on a PC or workstation with NVIDIA RTX or NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, and (b) not used in a commercial kiosk, server or other system used to service multiple users. For other uses of these NIMs, you may purchase an NVIDIA AI Enterprise Subscription or obtain a license under an NVIDIA program, as available.Excerpt from NVIDIA NIM's NVIDIA AI Foundation Models AUP
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision primarily operates as a commercial licensing condition and does not directly engage privacy or data protection frameworks. However, to the extent that NIM containers in workstation deployments collect telemetry (as disclosed in Section G.1.1), the absence of a subscription does not exempt customers from applicable data protection obligations under GDPR or CCPA. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Low to Medium. The commercial kiosk and multi-user system exclusion may be ambiguous in edge cases (for example, a shared developer workstation accessed by multiple users), requiring IT and legal teams to make interpretive judgments about whether specific deployments fall within the permitted community use conditions. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: This provision applies globally as written. No jurisdiction-specific carve-outs are identified in the document for this section. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Organizations deploying NIM Community Products should document the hardware configuration and use context of each deployment to demonstrate compliance with the workstation-only, single-user conditions. Any planned scale-up to server or multi-user environments should trigger a licensing review before deployment. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: IT asset management teams should flag NIM Community Product deployments for periodic review to confirm they remain within permitted hardware and use-context conditions. Procurement teams should establish a workflow for transitioning to a subscription when workstation deployments are scaled or repurposed for server or multi-user contexts.
This provision defines the boundary conditions for subscription-free use of designated NIM Community Products, specifically excluding commercial kiosk, server, and multi-user system deployments. Organizations that initially deploy NIMs on workstations and subsequently scale to server or multi-user environments may cross into subscription-required territory, creating a licensing transition point that procurement teams should monitor.
The agreement permits subscription-free use of designated NIM Community Products on RTX or GeForce RTX GPU-equipped PCs or workstations only; deployment in commercial kiosks, servers, or multi-user environments requires a separate subscription or program license.
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