PFN releases four translation-model sizes under its Community License.
Local translation can be evaluated without treating a downloadable model as unrestricted commercial software.
What happened
Preferred Networks announced the weights on 5 November. PFN describes four sizes—0.8B, 2B, 8B and 31B—and translation across 53 languages. The PLaMo Community License has commercial conditions: PFN’s model card says commercial use requires registration where the user or its affiliates had revenue or sales of JPY 1 billion or less in the most recent fiscal year, and a separate agreement above that threshold. Personal and non-commercial use requires no registration. PFN’s smartphone demonstration is not a released phone app.
Why it matters: Local translation can be evaluated without treating a downloadable model as unrestricted commercial software.
Sources: Primary source, “PFN Releases Open-Weight Translation LLM PLaMo 3 Translate, Bringing World-Class Translation AI to Edge Devices - Preferred Networks, Inc.”; Primary source, “PLaMo 3 Translate: World-Class Translation with Open Weights—Here’s How We Built It - Preferred Networks, Inc.”; Primary source, “pfnet/plamo-3-translate-0.8b · Hugging Face”