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 At Pleias, we continue to research and develop improved methods for creating safer and more equitable models and datasets. This includes ongoing work in toxicity reduction, bias mitigation, and the development of more sophisticated ethical filtering techniques.
 
+## Acknowledgements
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+This work would not have been possible without the substantial support and technical expertise from TractoAI, a serverless AI platform for running data and compute-intensive workloads at scale.
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+We are deeply grateful to the Mozilla Foundation Local AI Program for their generous support. 
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+Finally, we acknowledge the significant contributions from the open science LLM community, particularly HuggingFace, Eleuther AI and Allen AI whose insights and cooperation have been invaluable to our work.
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 ## Future updates
 Pleias-nano-1.2b-RAG will be continuously improved through iterative retraining/adaptation.