The agreement permits non-commercial and research use of Stability AI models under the open license terms, without requiring a separate commercial license agreement.
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This provision defines the boundary of permitted use under the non-commercial license tier and determines whether academic researchers, individual developers, and non-commercial projects may access Stability AI models without entering a commercial agreement.
Interpretive note: The specific definition of non-commercial use and associated conditions were not available in the truncated document; this provision is inferred from contextual metadata and publicly known aspects of Stability AI's licensing framework.
New explicit carve-out for non-commercial and research uses clarifies that certain use cases are permitted without commercial licensing, potentially broadening accessibility for academic and non-profit entities.
View full change record →Under this clause, users whose use of Stability AI models is classified as non-commercial or research-oriented may access model weights without a commercial license. The definition of non-commercial use and the conditions that distinguish it from commercial use are set out in the applicable license documentation.
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This provision defines the boundary of permitted use under the non-commercial license tier and determines whether academic researchers, individual developers, and non-commercial projects may access Stability AI models without entering a commercial agreement.
Under this clause, users whose use of Stability AI models is classified as non-commercial or research-oriented may access model weights without a commercial license. The definition of non-commercial use and the conditions that distinguish it from commercial use are set out in the applicable license documentation.
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