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 Some of the key features of KleidiAI are the following:
 
 - No dependencies on external libraries
-- No internal memory allocation​
+- No internal memory allocation
 - No internal threading mechanisms
-- Stateless, stable, and consistent API​
+- Stateless, stable, and consistent API
 - Performance-critical compute-bound and memory-bound micro-kernels
 - Specialized micro-kernels for different Arm® CPU architectures and technologies
 - Specialized micro-kernels for different fusion patterns