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What do the NLLB-200 card and repository say about intended use, out-of-scope use, language count and licences, and can its translations be used for subtitles or dubbing scripts?

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The NLLB-200 card scopes the model to research, sentence-level translation (inputs up to 512 tokens), not production, not document or domain-specific translation and not certified translation; weights are CC-BY-NC 4.0. The repository's FLORES-200 list has 202 codes against the '200 languages' label. Curator qualifications: Cards/code read 2026-10-22; nothing run or downloaded; not legal advice. Limitations: Cards/code read 2026-10-22; nothing run or downloaded; not legal advice. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M/raw/f8d333a098d19b4fd9a8b18f94170487ad3f821d/README.md",
      "note": "facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M card at f8d333a0 L205, L223, L231; fairseq examples/nllb/.../flores200/langs.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/blob/ec0ae71a24fbc2f42252f37735f59dd6547eba38/examples/nllb/modeling/README.md",
      "note": "facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M card at f8d333a0 L205, L223, L231; fairseq examples/nllb/.../flores200/langs.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/blob/ec0ae71a24fbc2f42252f37735f59dd6547eba38/LICENSE.model.md",
      "note": "facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M card at f8d333a0 L205, L223, L231; fairseq examples/nllb/.../flores200/langs.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/blob/ec0ae71a24fbc2f42252f37735f59dd6547eba38/examples/nllb/modeling/scripts/flores200/langs.txt",
      "note": "facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M card at f8d333a0 L205, L223, L231; fairseq examples/nllb/.../flores200/langs.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/blob/ec0ae71a24fbc2f42252f37735f59dd6547eba38/LICENSE",
      "note": "facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M card at f8d333a0 L205, L223, L231; fairseq examples/nllb/.../flores200/langs.txt"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] The NLLB-200 card scopes the model to research, sentence-level translation (inputs up to 512 tokens), not production, not document or domain-specific translation and not certified translation; weights are CC-BY-NC 4.0. The repository's FLORES-200 list has 202 codes against the '200 languages' label. · locator: facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M card at f8d333a0 L205, L223, L231; fairseq examples/nllb/.../flores200/langs.txt source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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