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Lightning AI Secures $50 Million Investment from Cisco, J.P. Morgan, K5 Global, and Nvidia for PyTorch AI Framework

Nov 22, 2024•over 1 year ago

Contract Type

partnership

San FranciscoSoftware

Description

Lightning AI has secured a $50 million equity investment from Cisco Investments, J.P. Morgan, K5 Global, and Nvidia to further develop the PyTorch Lightning open AI framework. The investment brings its total funding to $103 million. The platform unifies separate tools into one, multi-cloud platform, offering solutions to train and deploy models, build intelligent agents, and more.

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Company

Lightning AI

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Lightning AI is an end-to-end AI development platform that takes teams from idea to production at lightning speed, enabling collaborative coding, rapid prototyping, GPU-powered training, and scalable deployment—all directly from the browser with zero setup. With persistent cloud environments, seamless CPU-to-GPU workflows, multi-node scaling, and native support for PyTorch Lightning, Fabric, Lit-GPT, torchmetrics, and more, Lightning AI functions as a powerful cloud-based laptop built to develop, debug, and serve AI models efficiently.

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