Indemnification was a significant announcement at Microsoft Ignite: this essentially means that they

will pay legal damages on behalf of customers using its artificial intelligence (AI) products if they are sued for copyright infringement for the output generated by such systems

(Reuters)

Others followed suit, including OpenAI, Adobe and Mistral 🇫🇷. Buyer’s guides do not yet reflect this, so that would be something to also look out for - I think. This seems particularly important as:

• rumor has it that Anthropic is not offering such assurance & insurance! Further, it’s unclear if AWS would add such guarantees for Bedrock customers. I have looped Luca into the conversation, so let’s see…
• several 3rd party vendors are spinning up offering e.g. Mistral 7B at steep discounts. These discounts may come at a cost…