> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.wandb.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get Started with Weights & Biases

> Choose the right W&B product for your use case and learn how to get started

## Product comparison

Welcome to Weights & Biases! Before getting started with our products, it's important to identify which ones suit your use case.

| Product                                | Best For                              | Key Features                                                                                    |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **[W\&B Models](#w%26b-models)**       | Training ML models from scratch       | Experiment tracking, hyperparameter optimization, model registry, visualizations                |
| **[W\&B Weave](#w%26b-weave)**         | Building LLM applications             | Tracing, prompt management, evaluation, cost tracking for production AI apps                    |
| **[W\&B Inference](#w%26b-inference)** | Using pre-trained models              | Hosted open-source models, API access, model playground for testing                             |
| **[W\&B Training](#w%26b-training)**   | Fine-tuning models                    | Create and deploy LoRAs and custom model adaptations with reinforcement learning                |
| **[W\&B Sandboxes](#w%26b-sandboxes)** | Running isolated compute environments | On-demand, disposable sandboxes for training jobs, agent tool use, and reproducible experiments |

## W\&B Models

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  <Card title="Models Quickstart" href="/models/quickstart">
    The "hello world" of W\&B, which guides you to logging your first data.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Get Started with Models" href="/models/models_quickstart">
    A full-fledged tutorial that walks through the entire Models product using a real ML experiment.
  </Card>

  <Card title="W&B 101 Course" href="https://wandb.ai/site/courses/101/">
    A video-led course that emphasizes experiment tracking and features quizzes to ensure comprehension.
  </Card>

  <Card title="YouTube Tutorial" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAFujRhZLA">
    Learn how models are trained, evaluated, developed, and deployed and how you can use wandb at each step of that lifecycle to help build better performing models faster.
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## W\&B Weave

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  <Card title="Weave Quickstart" href="/weave/quickstart">
    Learn how to decorate your code so that calling into an LLM logs Weave traces and sets you on the path of a perfect LLM workflow.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Learn Weave with W&B Inference" href="/weave/quickstart-inference">
    A full-fledged tutorial that shows Weave doing real-world evaluation of the performance of various models hosted by W\&B Inference
  </Card>

  <Card title="W&B Weave 101 Course" href="https://site.wandb.ai/courses/weave/">
    A video-led course that teaches you how to log, debug, and evaluate language model workflows, and features quizzes to ensure comprehension.
  </Card>

  <Card title="YouTube Demo" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQcGGNLN3zo">
    Learn how you can evaluate, monitor, and iterate continuously on your AI applications and improve quality, latency, cost, and safety.
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## W\&B Inference

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  <Card title="Inference Introduction" href="/inference">
    Features a quickstart that shows how you use the standard OpenAI REST API to call any model hosted on W\&B Inference.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Learn Weave with W&B Inference" href="/weave/quickstart-inference">
    A full-fledged tutorial that shows Weave doing real-world evaluation of the performance of various models hosted by W\&B Inference
  </Card>

  <Card title="Try the Inference Playground" href="https://wandb.ai/inference">
    W\&B Inference is really simple to use. Click on any model we host, start trying prompts, and see our observability layer kick into action.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Examples" href="/inference/examples">
    Run through a few quick examples of W\&B Inference tracing calls to popular LLMs and evaluating the results.
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## W\&B Training

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  <Card title="Quickstart" href="https://art.openpipe.ai/getting-started/quick-start">
    Use W\&B Training with OpenPipe's ART library to train a model to play the game 2048.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Use your trained models" href="/training/serverless-rl/use-trained-models">
    After creating your trained model, learn how to use it in your code.
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## W\&B Sandboxes

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  <Card title="Sandboxes Introduction" href="/sandboxes">
    Learn what W\&B Sandboxes are and when to use them for isolated, disposable compute.
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  <Card title="Create a sandbox" href="/sandboxes/create-sandbox">
    Spin up your first sandbox in Python and start running code in seconds.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Train a PyTorch model in a sandbox" href="/sandboxes/mltrain-in-sandbox-tutorial">
    A full tutorial that walks through training a PyTorch model inside a sandbox from start to finish.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Invoke an agent in a sandbox" href="/sandboxes/invoke-agent-sandbox-tutorial">
    Give an OpenAI agent access to a sandbox for safe, isolated tool use.
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