Zero Data Retention
A common contractual arrangement in enterprise AI procurement in which the provider commits not to persist prompts and model outputs after request processing is complete, retaining only the billing and security metadata that is necessary.
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Most mainstream APIs enable "no training" by default, but disable zero data retention (ZDR) by default, which enterprises need to apply for separately and have approved after review.
Zero Data Retention (ZDR) is an option some AI vendors offer to enterprise customers: requests and responses are not persisted after inference is complete and are used only for that computation.
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Most mainstream APIs enable "no training" by default, but disable zero data retention (ZDR) by default, which enterprises need to apply for separately and have approved after review.
50%UnverifiedZero Data Retention (ZDR) is an option some AI vendors offer to enterprise customers: requests and responses are not persisted after inference is complete and are used only for that computation.
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