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Kakao open-sources Kanana 1.5 under Apache 2.0
Open-sourced Kanana 1.5 — four models (base and instruct at 8B and 2.1B) under Apache 2.0
Why it matters
The first Kanana release under a license that allows commercial use (Apache 2.0)
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