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Merlin COMMUNITY LICENSE AGREEMENT
Merlin Version Release Date: Dec 01, 2023
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modification of the Merlin Materials set forth herein.
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"Merlin" means the foundational multimodal large language models and software and
algorithms, including machine-learning model code, trained model weights,
inference-enabling code, training-enabling code, fine-tuning enabling code and other
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