10 alternatives to pytorch-lightning

lightning-ai/pytorch-lightning — Pretrain, finetune ANY AI model of ANY size on 1 or 10,000+ GPUs with zero code changes. (31,444 stars, Apache-2.0, integration, files, ai).

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• tensorflow/tensorflow
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• patchy631/ai-engineering-hub
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• microsoft/semantic-kernel
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