Preferred Networks (PFN)<\/strong> is a Japanese AI company. On its pfnet organization on Hugging Face<\/a> it publishes PLaMo<\/strong>, a series of language models trained from scratch in-house with strong Japanese ability. As a domestic company that handles large language models from pre-training onward, it is a particularly familiar publisher for Japanese users.<\/p>\n Most PLaMo models use the “PLaMo Community License”.<\/strong> Any use beyond personal or academic use counts as commercial, and commercial use requires both of the following:<\/p>\n Otherwise, you need a separate commercial license from PFN. When providing PLaMo-based models or products to third parties, you must state “Built with PLaMo” and include “PLaMo” in the names of models you create. Models trained on PLaMo outputs are also treated as derived models under the same terms. On Hugging Face, some models require accepting the license before download.<\/p>\n Preferred-MedRECT-32B and plamo-2-1b, on the other hand, are Apache-2.0, and Preferred-MedLLM-Qwen-72B uses the original Qwen license. The Qwen-based qfin models for finance are under the PLaMo Community License. This summary is not legal advice; read the license text before use.<\/p>\n Sources: the pfnet organization<\/a>; the PLaMo Community License Agreement shown on pfnet\/plamo-2.1-8b-vl<\/a>; model cards of pfnet\/plamo-3-nict-8b-base<\/a> and pfnet\/plamo-3-610m-fin-instruct<\/a>; the model list of the pfnet organization on Hugging Face (all as of 2026-09-26).<\/em><\/p>\n Local Model Watch has published 1 article(s) on Preferred Networks (PFN)’s own models, 0 on third-party fine-tunes and quantized builds based on them, and 0 from its official blog. The model list below is collected by code from Hugging Face every day. Part of our publisher index<\/a>; model families link to their family pages<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhat It Releases<\/h2>\n
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