Precision in describing this system is a technical requirement, not a style guide. Each of these is the difference between a claim that holds under scrutiny and one that does not.
Not this
This
”an open source model"
"open weights” — the weights are published; the licence is still the licence
”your data stays in Africa”
Sovereignty attaches to Mind and Ground. Never to Cloud
Each phrase on the left is puncturable by one person who checks. “Open
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one.The versions on the right are less impressive and survive contact. For a
product whose entire proposition is that you can trust it with your own data,
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does.
Broadly permissive, but it requires a separate agreement for
model-as-a-service operators above USD 20M revenue over any twelve months,
and attribution above 100M monthly active users or USD 20M monthly revenue.
Shamwari is nowhere near either threshold. That is a fact about today, not a
property of the licence, and the licence file is the thing to read before
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