ColossalAI

by HPC-AI Tech

Open distributed framework — supports Whisper LoRA fine-tunes.

TL;DR

Open distributed framework — supports Whisper LoRA fine-tunes.

Best for cheap large-model training across multi-GPU nodes. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
—
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

Distributed-training stack with 3D-parallel + ZeRO. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Cheap large-model training across multi-GPU nodes.
Watch out for: Less mature than DeepSpeed for inference.

Install / use

pip install colossalai

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported99
HIPAA eligibleNo

ColossalAI vs Whipscribe

FeatureColossalAIWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages9999
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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