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An individual is not excluded by a sentence; the programme is addressed to startups and reviewed. What would settle individual eligibility: the application form's entity field, which returned 403 or a redirect on every route tried.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"hardware-vendor-programme","free_tier_kind":"unpublished-credit","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":"Intel Gaudi / Xeon","gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}