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Sramana Mitra: Talk about the healthcare and life science domain-specific products. Is that all internal or is some of that also open source?  David Talby: That’s our product. That’s a licensed product. We have two licensed products: Spark NLP for healthcare and Spark OCR. Spark NLP for healthcare is an extension of the open-source library

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