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    ]
  },
  "developer": "Stanford CRFM (Tatsu Lab)",
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    "value": "2023-03-13",
    "source": "https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html",
    "status": "recorded"
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    "source": "https://huggingface.co/tatsu-lab/alpaca-7b-wdiff",
    "note": "Released by the developer as a weight diff, to be applied to LLaMA 7B weights."
  },
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    "value": "Research-only; commercial use explicitly prohibited. Fine-tuned weights not directly redistributed (LLaMA's own license restricts this) -- release was a training recipe / diff, not confirmed as full weight redistribution.",
    "source": "https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html",
    "status": "partial"
  },
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    },
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      "value": null,
      "status": "not_recorded"
    },
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      "value": null,
      "status": "not_recorded"
    },
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      "value": null,
      "status": "not_recorded"
    },
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      "value": null,
      "status": "not_recorded"
    }
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    "source": "https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html",
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    {
      "date": "2026-09-24",
      "change": "created from primary sources (Stanford CRFM blog post, GitHub repo)",
      "by": "wilson-pruitt + claude"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-09-24",
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      "by": "wilson-pruitt + claude"
    }
  ]
}