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LitGPT

Release: v0.5.14 (2026-11-10)Commit: 5341568License: Apache-2.0

Pretrain, fine-tune and serve 20+ language models with from-scratch implementations.

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FactsLicenseApache-2.0LanguagePythonKindtrainingRelease2026-11-10PlatformsLinux (GPU), macOSLinks to the projectpermissive
$ pip install 'litgpt[extra]'
# use with Freeweights
$ litgpt finetune <id>

Overview

Pretrain, fine-tune and serve 20+ language models with from-scratch implementations.

Kind
training
License
Apache-2.0
Language
Python
Platforms
Linux (GPU), macOS
Latest release
v0.5.14 (2026-11-10)
Repository
Lightning-AI/litgpt
Topicsaiartificial-intelligencedeep-learninglarge-language-modelsllmllm-inferencellms

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Install

$ pip install 'litgpt[extra]'
# use with Freeweights
$ litgpt finetune <id>
$ pip install 'litgpt[extra]'

Checked against the project's README on 2026-11-14. The project's own instructions win when they differ: install docs

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Use with Freeweights

Fine-tune a catalog model
$ litgpt finetune <id>

Download the weights from Freeweights first (HF_ENDPOINT or fw.py), then point the tool at the folder.

Catalog models it can fine-tune (3137)

and 3077 more.

License

License
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive

Read the license

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Provenance

From: Lightning-AI <github.com/Lightning-AI>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject: LitGPTRelease: v0.5.14 (2026-11-10)Commit: 5341568License: Apache-2.0
Repository
Lightning-AI/litgpt
Pinned release
v0.5.14, 2026-11-10
Release commit
5341568a65e918a85cb284fac038de2157eebf3f
Default branch
main 5341568a65e918a85cb284fac038de2157eebf3f
Fetched
2026-11-14
Takedowns
None.

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Works with

3137 catalog models. See the list