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# Lightfast

[![License: Apache 2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)

## Mission

Lightfast studies how people, machines, and artificial intelligence can work
together to develop consequential physical technologies.

## Vision

We study a central question: How should people and machines work together as
scientific and engineering teams develop physical systems?

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Our approach is to work alongside teams in real research and development
environments. We identify a specific human-machine interaction worth studying
or improving, design and test possible systems, and turn what generalizes into
research, tooling, infrastructure, or products. See [SPEC.md](https://github.com/lightfastai/lightfast/blob/HEAD/SPEC.md).

## Contributing

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/lightfastai/lightfast/blob/HEAD/CONTRIBUTING.md).

## Community

- [Discord](https://discord.gg/YqPDfcar2C)
- [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/lightfastai/lightfast/issues)
- [Twitter](https://x.com/lightfastai)

## License

Lightfast is open source:

- **Platform** (apps, API routers, database, internal packages): [Apache License 2.0](https://github.com/lightfastai/lightfast/tree/HEAD/LICENSE).
- **SDKs and shared libraries** (`core/*`, `vendor/*`, UI kit, shared utilities): MIT License (see each package's `LICENSE` file or `package.json`).