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 1. Easy-to-use state-of-the-art models:
     - High performance on NLU and NLG tasks.
     - Low barrier to entry for educators and practitioners.
-    - Few user-facing abastractions with just three classes to learn.
+    - Few user-facing abstractions with just three classes to learn.
     - A unified API for using all our pretrained models.
 
 1. Lower compute costs, smaller carbon footprint: