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Welcome to ⚡ Lightning
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Build models and full stack AI apps ⚡ *Lightning fast*.

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**Featured examples of what you can build with Lightning:**

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   :title: Develop and Train
   :description: Train an LLM (512 GPUs)
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   :preview: https://lightning.ai
   :deploy: https://lightning.ai
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   :tags: Model

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   :title: Serve and deploy
   :description: Production-ready stable diffusion server (<2s latency)
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   :preview: https://lightning.ai
   :deploy: https://lightning.ai
   :target: https://apple.com
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   :title: Scale and build a product
   :description: Production-ready generative AI app
   :width: 280
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   :target: https://lightning.ai/muse
   :deploy: https://lightning.ai
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Build modular components
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         Build modular, self-contained components that can train and deploy models, host a web UI or run arbitrary code on the cloud.
         A Lightning Component manages its own infrastructure, cloud costs, networking and more, so you can focus on application logic and not engineering.

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         Combine your components and prebuilt ones from <a href="https://lightning.ai/components" target="_blank">our gallery </a>
         to create full-stack AI apps, ⚡ <i>Lightning fast</i>.
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   :header: Get started
   :description: Learn to go from Lightning components to full stack AI apps step-by-step.
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   :caption: Home

   Install <install/installation>
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   :caption: Get started in steps

   Basic <levels/basic/index>
   Intermediate <levels/intermediate/index>
   Advanced <levels/advanced/index>

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   :caption: Core API Reference

   LightningApp <core_api/lightning_app/index>
   LightningFlow <core_api/lightning_flow>
   LightningWork <core_api/lightning_work/index>

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   :caption: Addons API Reference

   api_reference/components
   api_reference/frontend
   api_reference/runners
   api_reference/storage

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   :caption: More

   Start from component templates <https://lightning.ai/components>
   Start from app templates <https://lightning.ai/apps>
   Examples <examples/index>
   Glossary <glossary/index>
   How to... <workflows/index>