December 2023 Summaries

Lightning AI, the creator of PyTorch Lightning, has joined the AI Alliance, a coalition of more than 50 organizations supporting open AI research, development, innovation, and science. The company has promoted open-source AI since 2019 through projects including PyTorch Lightning, torchmetrics, lit-gpt, and lit-llama, while also offering educational courses and compute grants for research organizations. Lightning AI said its participation reflects a shared commitment to transparent and responsible AI development that emphasizes safety, diversity, economic opportunity, and broad societal benefit. PyTorch Lightning, a lightweight open-source framework designed to improve productivity in training and deploying AI models, has been downloaded more than 90 million times.