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Cohere Coral carries highly permissive license terms; xAI API carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: COHERE CORAL NOT RECOMMENDED · XAI API NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | COHERE CORAL | XAI API |
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“YOU GRANT US A NONEXCLUSIVE, WORLDWIDE, ROYALTY-FREE, IRREVOCABLE, SUBLICENSABLE, AND FULLY PAID-UP RIGHT TO ACCESS, COLLECT, USE, PROCESS, STORE, DISCLOSE AND TRANSMIT ANY DATA, INFORMATION, CONTENT, RECORDS OR FILES (“ CONTENT ”) THAT YOU LOAD, SUBMIT, TRANSMIT TO OR ENTER INTO…”
The license grant over user inputs is irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and sublicensable—meaning Cohere retains these rights even if the user terminates their account. The scope is extremely broad.
“You grant, an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, and worldwide right to xAI to use, copy, store, modify, distribute, reproduce, publish, display in public forums, list information regarding, make derivative works of, and aggregate your User Content…”
The license granted to xAI over user inputs is irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable, and royalty-free, covering virtually any purpose. This is an extremely broad grant that survives account termination and cannot be revoked by the user.
“ The Cohere Solution and all materials provided by us hereunder are made available or licensed and not “sold” to you. ”
“**Similarity of content.** Due to the nature of artificial intelligence, outputs may not be unique, and different users may receive similar output from our Service. Your rights to the Output do not extend to other's rights.”
“Section 2.3 (Research and Model Improvement): Analyzing usage patterns and using Trial or Research User Inputs/Outputs to improve the performance and safety of our AI models. Content you submit to the Cohere Products, and outputs generated by the Cohere Products. Legitimate…”
Cohere uses Trial and Research user inputs and outputs for model training/improvement under 'legitimate interests' rather than consent, giving users limited ability to object. Paid/Enterprise users may have different treatment but this is not clarified here.
“Electing whether your User Content is used for product development or model training.** When logged into our Service, you can select whether or not you want us to use your User Content to improve our products and services and train our models. Private Chat and User Content that y…”
Logged-in users have an opt-out choice for training use, but unauthenticated users are granted no opt-out and automatically grant 'full rights' to their data for model training. The opt-out for logged-in users also does not fully override the irrevocable license granted elsewhere in the Terms.
“you further represent and warrant to and covenant with Cohere that you will not (and will not attempt to) directly or indirectly: disable, overly burden, impair, or otherwise interfere with servers or networks connected to the Cohere Solution (e.g., a denial of service att…”
Commercial exploitation of the Cohere Solution itself is prohibited without prior written permission, which significantly restricts resale, white-labelling, or embedding scenarios.
“Using the Service or any Output to develop models or services that compete with xAI, scraping or reselling any Input or Output, or distilling model data”
Users are prohibited from using outputs to develop competing models or services, or from reselling outputs. This restricts legitimate commercial applications of generated content.
“The use of cookies for this purpose may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under California privacy law.”
Platform acknowledges its advertising cookie practices may constitute a 'sale' or 'sharing' of personal data under CCPA/CPRA.
“By choosing to login to our Service by using a third-party service, such as Google, Apple, or X, you give us permission to access, use, and store your information from that service, as permitted by that service, which may include log-in credentials and/or access tokens for that s…”
Third-party login grants xAI permission to access and store credentials and tokens. The optional X integration allows ingestion of extensive personal data including post history, location, and account preferences, creating a significant data aggregation risk.
“EXCEPT FOR ANY SPECIFIC WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS PROVIDED IN AN APPLICABLE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW”
Warranty and other protections may differ for users with a separate Subscription Agreement (typically paid/enterprise tiers), but the specific differences are not disclosed in this document.
“- At our sole discretion, we may implement rate limitations to accommodate system resources or usage needs.”