Organization
Lightning AI
Lightning AI is a cloud and compute infrastructure provider headquartered in San Francisco, California7. This catalog lists 1 software project from Lightning AI, under licenses including the Apache License 2.0.
Documented roles: Cloud provider · Compute infrastructure · Developer platform
Lightning AI created and maintains the PyTorch Lightning training framework and runs a cloud platform for building, training, and deploying AI models, including browser-based development environments (Studios) and on-demand GPUs. It merged with GPU infrastructure provider Voltage Park in January 2026 and operates under the Lightning AI name.128
Status: Lightning AI and Voltage Park completed a merger announced on January 21, 2026; the combined company operates under the Lightning AI name and pairs Lightning's software platform with Voltage Park's GPU data centers in the United States.891
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Key facts
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Legal form
- Unknown
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California7
- Founded
- Unknown
- Sectors
- Cloud
What is and isn’t public
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning AI Studio (external site: lightning.ai) | Cloud platform | Browser-based cloud workspaces (Studios) for coding, training, and deploying models on CPUs and GPUs; free tier with starter credits, then pay-as-you-go GPU time billed by the second, with Pro, Teams, and Enterprise plans.31 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Lightning GPU cloud (external site: lightning.ai) | Compute service | Self-serve on-demand GPUs and GPU clusters in Lightning's own data centers, plus a marketplace that provisions capacity from other clouds through the same platform.283 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
Frameworks
- PyTorch LightningSoftwareAvailability: Public
Notable documented facts
- An SEC Form D filed on January 8, 2026 by Lightning AI, Inc. lists Voltage Park, Inc. as its previous name, Delaware as its jurisdiction, a San Francisco principal place of business, and a related business combination. Lightning AI's website privacy policy (effective August 2023) names Grid.ai, Inc. doing business as Lightning AI, with a New York postal address.75
What this catalog does not know
- Legal name: not documented in the sources reviewed for this record.
- Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
- Official careers page: not verified by this catalog.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
The Form D filed in January 2026 by Lightning AI, Inc. (formerly Voltage Park, Inc.), a Delaware corporation, gives a principal place of business in San Francisco, California, and the company's privacy policy gives a New York address for Grid.ai, Inc. doing business as Lightning AI. The published legal material does not say how the two entities relate after the merger, so no legal name is recorded, but both documented entities and addresses are in the United States. Its terms of service are governed by New York law.7568
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