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title: Welcome to Letta
subtitle: Letta is an AI platform for building stateful LLM applications.
slug: introduction
---


<Note>**Letta Cloud** is our hosted service that lets you easily deploy your agents applications at scale. Sign up [here](https://forms.letta.com/early-access) to request early access.</Note>

## What is Letta?

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Letta adds state to your LLMs to give them advanced reasoning capabilities and transparent **long-term memory**.

The Letta open source framework is **model-agnostic** and **white box**: as a developer, you can use any LLM you want and have full visibility into the inner workings your LLMs and LLM agents.

Letta runs as a service: to use Letta, you deploy a **Letta server** which powers your AI application (web app, mobile app, Discord bot, workflow, etc.). Your application state and LLM calls are managed by the Letta server,
and your frontend application connects to the Letta server via the Letta REST APIs.

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## Who is Letta for?

Letta is for developers building stateful LLM applications that require advanced memory, such as:
* **personalized chatbots** that require long-term memory and personas that should be updated (self-edited) over time (e.g. companions)
* **agents connected to external data sources**, e.g. private enterprise deployments of ChatGPT-like applications (connected to your company's data), or a medical assistant connected to a patient's medical records
* **agents connected to custom tools**, e.g. a chatbot that can answer questions about the latest news by searching the web
* **automated AI workflows**, e.g. an agent that monitors your email inbox and sends you text alerts for urgent emails and a daily email summary

... and countless other use cases!

### [Letta ADE](https://app.letta.com) (Agent Development Environment)
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<Note>
The Letta [ADE](https://app.letta.com) is currently in public beta. Your feedback (e.g. via [Discord](https://discord.gg/letta)) is appreciated!
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The Letta ADE is web application that allows you to create, edit, and monitor agents in your Letta server.
You can connect the ADE to your local Letta server, or to a Letta server running on a remote server.
For more information, see the [Agent Development Environment](/agent-development-environment/ade) page.


### [Letta API](https://docs.letta.com/api-reference)
The Letta server exposes a REST API that allows you to programatically interact with your Letta agents.
You can use the API to deploy agents with long-term memory, custom tools, access to external data sources (RAG), multi-step reasoning, and more.

### Letta SDKs

<Note>
We are currently previewing our **TypeScript SDK**, available [here](https://github.com/letta-ai/letta-node).
</Note>

If you're building an application in Python, you can use the Letta **[Python SDK](https://github.com/letta-ai/letta-python)** to interact with Letta (instead of calling REST APIs directly) for a more seamless experience.

## Getting started

If you're new to Letta, start by learning the key concepts - or jump straight into creating your first agent!

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    Create and message your first agent with the Letta CLI
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    Learn the key concepts behind the Letta platform
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  <Card title="Deploy" icon="rocket" href="/deployment">
    Learn how to deploy a Letta server on a remote service
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## Tutorials

Check out our [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@letta-ai) for more tutorials. If you have an idea for a tutorial, let us know by suggesting an idea on [Discord](https://discord.gg/letta)!

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  <Card title="ADE overview" icon="square-1" href="/agent-development-environment/ade">
    Learn the basics of the ADE
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    Learn how to use the Letta Python SDK
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    Create a multi-agent recruiting workflow
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