> ## 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                                           |
| **[Serverless Inference](#serverless-inference)** | Using pre-trained models              | Hosted open-source models, API access, model playground for testing                                                    |
| **[Serverless Training](#serverless-training)**   | Fine-tuning and post-training models  | Create and deploy LoRAs and custom model adaptations with reinforcement learning (RL) and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) |
| **[Serverless Sandboxes](#serverless-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.
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  <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=FkTwcxnSPes">
    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.
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  <Card title="Learn Weave with Serverless Inference" href="/weave/quickstart-inference">
    A full-fledged tutorial that shows Weave doing real-world evaluation of the performance of various models hosted by Serverless Inference
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  <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.
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  <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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## Serverless 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 Serverless Inference.
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  <Card title="Learn Weave with Serverless Inference" href="/weave/quickstart-inference">
    A full-fledged tutorial that shows Weave doing real-world evaluation of the performance of various models hosted by Serverless Inference
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  <Card title="Try the Inference Playground" href="https://wandb.ai/inference">
    Serverless Inference is really simple to use. Click on any model we host, start trying prompts, and see our observability layer kick into action.
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  <Card title="Examples" href="/inference/examples">
    Run through a few quick examples of Serverless Inference tracing calls to popular LLMs and evaluating the results.
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## Serverless Training

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  <Card title="Quickstart" href="https://art.openpipe.ai/getting-started/quick-start">
    Use Serverless RL with OpenPipe's ART library to train a model to play the game 2048.
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  <Card title="Use your trained models" href="/serverless-training/use-trained-models">
    After creating your trained model, learn how to use it in your code.
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## Serverless Sandboxes

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  <Card title="Sandboxes Introduction" href="/sandboxes">
    Learn what Serverless 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.
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  <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.
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  <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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