Terms

1 · About these terms

These terms govern your use of generalsequences.com and of the private preview of the Sequences inference API described on it. Sequences is the trading name of General Sequences, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States — which is also why the domain reads the long way round. Using the site or the API means you accept them.

Where you enter into a separate written agreement with us — an order form, an evaluation agreement, a pilot agreement — that agreement governs the commercial relationship and prevails over anything here that conflicts with it.

2 · Product status

Sequences routes inference requests to vision-language models and to robot action policies through a single API. The service is in private preview. It carries no uptime commitment, no service level agreement and no guarantee of continuity, and endpoints, model coverage, request formats and rate limits are expected to change.

Figures published on this site — parameter counts, action dimensions and context windows — are read from model cards, configuration files and published benchmarks, and are stated for reference only. Any figure we derive from them is arithmetic on third-party numbers, not a measurement of our service, and we do not warrant that any of them is accurate, complete or current.

3 · Access

Access is granted per team during the preview. Submitting the request form does not create an account, does not entitle you to access, and does not oblige us to grant it. We may grant, decline, suspend or withdraw access at any time and for any reason, with or without notice. We will normally tell you, but we may act first where we reasonably suspect abuse, a security risk, non-payment, or a breach of these terms or of a model licence.

An API key issued to you is yours to protect. You are responsible for activity carried out with it, including activity by anyone you allow to use it, and you should tell us promptly if you believe it has been exposed.

4 · Third-party models

We do not own or train the models available through the API. Each is provided by its developer under its own licence or terms, and your use of a model through Sequences is subject to those terms in addition to these. Where a model's licence imposes use restrictions — including acceptable-use or prohibited-use policies — those restrictions apply to you, and you agree to comply with them and to pass them on to anyone you allow to use your integration.

The licence applying to each model is published in the model catalogue in the console. Some models appear there marked as unavailable because their licences do not permit commercial hosting; we list them, and the clause that blocks them, rather than removing them silently. Requests naming an unavailable model are refused.

Where a model is reached through a third-party provider's own service, that provider's terms also apply to the request and to its output.

5 · Robots and physical safety

The API returns proposed actions. It does not operate machinery, and nothing it returns has been validated as safe for any particular robot, workspace, payload or person. You are solely responsible for the safety of anything you connect it to — for the safety case, risk assessment, guarding, interlocks, workspace limits, emergency stops, testing and regulatory compliance in your jurisdiction.

Do not place an output of this service in a control path where a wrong or absent action could injure a person or damage property, without independent safety measures that do not depend on this service. Network delivery can be slow, interrupted or unavailable; a system that becomes unsafe when a response is late or missing has been designed wrongly.

6 · Acceptable use

Do not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site, the API or the systems behind them; submit another person's contact details without their permission; submit automated or bulk enquiries; attempt to extract, reconstruct or distil the weights of a model served through the API; resell or sublicense access except under a written agreement with us; circumvent rate limits or metering; or use the service in breach of a model licence, of applicable export controls, or of any law.

7 · Accuracy of information

Third-party figures cited on this site are attributed to their sources. Sample requests and responses shown on the site are illustrative. Usage and cost figures in the console are derived from metering records and are provided for reference only; they are not a statement of account, and amounts may be adjusted on final billing.

8 · Intellectual property

The text, drawings, layout, code and designs on this site are owned by Sequences or licensed to us. You may view them and link to this site. You may not copy, adapt, republish or present them as your own, or use them to train a model, except as fair use or an equivalent legal exception allows.

As between you and us, the observations, prompts and other content you submit remain yours, and we claim no ownership of outputs returned to you. Rights in the models themselves remain with their developers, and outputs may be subject to those developers' terms.

Third-party research, publications and product names referenced here belong to their respective owners and are cited under normal academic and journalistic practice.

If you send us feedback, suggestions or bug reports, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use them for any purpose, including in the product, without obligation or attribution. We will not identify you as the source without your permission.

9 · Disclaimers

The website and the API are provided on an as-is and as-available basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that outputs are accurate, safe, suitable for any task, or fit to drive a physical system.

10 · Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Sequences is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue or data, or for damage to or loss of equipment, arising from use of the site or the API. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these terms, whatever the cause of action and however arising, will not exceed the greater of the fees you paid us for the service in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred US dollars. The private preview is provided without charge, so during the preview that amount is one hundred US dollars.

11 · Your indemnity

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Sequences and its officers, employees and suppliers against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, fine or expense (including reasonable legal fees) brought by a third party and arising out of or relating to: your use of the service; anything you connect the service to, including any robot, machine or control system; your breach of these terms or of a model licence; your infringement of another party's rights; or injury to any person or damage to any property occurring in connection with your deployment.

This section survives termination. It does not apply to the extent a claim arises from our own wilful misconduct.

12 · Export control and sanctions

The service, and the models reached through it, are subject to United States export control and sanctions laws. You represent that you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or organised under the laws of a country or territory subject to comprehensive US sanctions, and that you are not a person with whom US persons are prohibited from dealing.

You will not export, re-export or make the service available to any such person or place, or use it for any end use prohibited by those laws — including any use connected with weapons, or with military or surveillance applications where a licence would be required. You are responsible for compliance in every jurisdiction where you deploy.

13 · Changes

We may update these terms as the product and the business develop. The date at the top of this page changes when we do. Material changes affecting an existing written agreement are handled through that agreement, not through this page.

14 · Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The state and federal courts located in Philadelphia County have exclusive jurisdiction.

If any provision is found unenforceable, the remainder stays in force.

Before filing anything, you agree to contact us and try to resolve the dispute informally for thirty days. If that fails, any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, seated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

Claims must be brought individually. You and we each waive any right to bring or participate in a class, collective, consolidated or representative action, and an arbitrator has no authority to hear one. Either party may still bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or to stop unauthorised access.

Any claim must be brought within one year of the events giving rise to it, or it is permanently barred to the extent the law allows. If the class-action waiver above is found unenforceable, the arbitration agreement does not apply to that claim, and it proceeds in the courts named above.

15 · Contact

Sequences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
founders@generalsequences.com