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@GoogleColab
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Check out - a new site we've just released, where you can track Colab announcements and release notes, find helpful resources, and browse our collection of cool and instructive notebooks!
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@GoogleColab
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In collaboration with our friends at @huggingface , Colab managed runtime images now include transformers installed by default. `import transformers` is all you need. We regularly update our image, but you can always force an upgrade with `!pip install transformers --upgrade`
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@GoogleColab
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You can now safely store your private keys, such as your @huggingface or @kaggle API tokens, in Colab! Values stored in Secrets are private, visible only to you and the notebooks you select.
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@GoogleColab
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Gemini has launched! We are starting a series of notebooks demonstrating Gemini in Colab, starting with using Sheets and Colab to facilitate creation of a personalized holiday note. Once you have a Gemini API key from Google AI Studio, try it out here:
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@GoogleColab
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🐍🎉 Colab has updated to Python 3.7! 🎉🐍 We've (finally) updated the default python version in Colab for all users. Try it out today!
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@GoogleColab
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Colab now has a Data Table extension that allows interactive exploration of pandas dataframes with filtering and sorting. Details in
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@GoogleColab
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NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs are now available in Colab: faster computations with more available memory. Read more @
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@GoogleColab
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🔩 We've published Colab's Docker runtime image! You can connect to Colab from any machine via Docker and our local runtime connection flow. Follow the instructions below for the connection:
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@GoogleColab
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Colab Pro: now with a Terminal! Run programs alongside your notebook, edit files using your favorite editor, or do anything else that requires an interactive shell.
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@GoogleColab
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You can now terminate Colab sessions programmatically with the following code: from google.colab import runtime runtime.unassign() The new unassign() function marks the currently connected runtime for deletion and disconnects any notebook sessions.
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@GoogleColab
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Colab integration with Google Drive just got better. Authenticate only once per notebook. No authentication codes are necessary for private notebooks when using the 'Mount Drive' button in the file browser.
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@GoogleColab
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🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳🇯🇵 🇹🇭 🇬🇧 Colab Pro is now available in Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. Sign up at 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳🇯🇵 🇹🇭 🇬🇧
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@GoogleColab
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11 months
Switching languages in Colab just got easier! Edit > Notebook settings now has a selector to choose among any installed kernels, including R (installed by default). Give it a try!
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@GoogleColab
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Colab now has the ability to notify you of completed executions if you switch to another tab, window, or application. Enable it via Tools → Settings → Site → Show desktop notifications (and allow browser notifications once prompted) to check it out.
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@GoogleColab
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✨ Today we're launching AI coding features to our Pro+ subscribers located in the United States, including natural language to code generation, code completion, and an integrated chatbot. We'd love to hear from you with positive examples of AI coding in Colab: please share! 1/
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@GoogleColab
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Good news: the space character in "My Drive" is no longer required!
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@GoogleColab
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Gemini, Google's latest and most advanced model, is also great at generating prompts for Stable Diffusion! In this notebook, use Gemini to assist you in creating the best possible prompts for generating images in Stable Diffusion:
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@GoogleColab
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2 years
🎉 Colab's markdown cells now include 💃emoji🕺 and Φ LaTeX ψ support! Start typing `:` followed by an emoji's name to select it from the drop-down menu, and `\` to trigger LaTeX completions 🎉
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@GoogleColab
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We just released the ability to open any notebook from the @huggingface Hub directly into Colab with one mouse click. 🔥 Blog post:
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@GoogleColab
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🥳 We've launched support for Google children's accounts! Children under the age of 13 are now able to access Colab for learning Python programming and machine learning. 🧐
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@GoogleColab
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You can now edit📝, create🆕, save💾, and move➡️ files and folders📂 through file browser on the left.
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@GoogleColab
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We’re excited to announce a new add-on for Google Sheets that allows you to quickly get sheets data into Colab. With one click you can get the code to import Sheets data into Colab. Try it here:
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@GoogleColab
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5 years
Try out our updated editor with improvements to autocomplete and inline documentation. Feedback welcome!
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@GoogleColab
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Colab now has a variable inspector to give you more insights into what your code is doing while executing. More information on this and the status bar at .
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@GoogleColab
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Colab now offers TPU VM runtimes! The TPU runs locally rather than across the network. This improves reliability, debuggability, and enables support for JAX 0.4.x on TPU! Try it out by selecting the "TPU v2" accelerator or try this Gemma + TPU notebook!
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@GoogleColab
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Following up on the Gemini API launch, here's a notebook to help you compare Gemini and ChatGPT API responses with a diff view!
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@GoogleColab
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Colab now has NVIDIA L4 runtimes for our paid users! 🚀 24GB of VRAM! It's a great GPU when you want a step up from a T4. Try it out by selecting the L4 runtime!
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@GoogleColab
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🎉 We're pleased to announce as of today Colab Pro and Pro+ are available for purchase in 12 new locations: Australia, Bangladesh, Colombia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam 🇦🇺 🇧🇩 🇨🇴 🇭🇰 🇮🇩 🇲🇽 🇳🇿 🇵🇰 🇵🇭 🇸🇬 🇹🇼 🇻🇳
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@GoogleColab
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This is a small quality of life improvement, but also enables fun features like being able to read @huggingface datasets directly from Pandas!
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@GoogleColab
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As announced on Google's Keyword blog today, we've expanded access to AI coding features in Colab to users in the free-of-charge tier. Watch the accompanying video to see the HousaNLP team in Nigeria talk about how Colab has helped their research!
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@GoogleColab
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7 months
Pasting data from Google Sheets into Colab just got better! If you paste from Google Sheets into an empty code cell, we'll insert code that automatically creates a pd.DataFrame; if you've already started typing, we'll insert the CSV literal for you.
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@GoogleColab
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1 year
Your new coding assistant is almost here! Check out these new Colab features: natural language to code generation, code completion, and an integrated chatbot. Read all about at authored by @thechrisperry and @shresbm
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@GoogleColab
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2 years
We're pleased to announce as of today Colab Pro and Pro+ are now available for purchase in 10 new countries: Ireland, Israel, Italy, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates
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@GoogleColab
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We’ve upgraded Colab to Python 3.8 and we’re planning further updates in the coming months. Read more about it at and follow our publication to stay in the loop on future announcements!
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@GoogleColab
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1 year
Similar to , , and , you can now visit to create a new notebook with one short, intuitive URL! Give it a try:
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@GoogleColab
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3 years
Colab is now available on GCP Marketplace! This gives you the ability to connect Colab to a custom GCE VM that you can configure as you wish.
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@GoogleColab
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4 years
Want to compare two notebooks? Use View > Diff notebooks from the Colab menu or and paste their Colab URLs in the input boxes at the top.
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@GoogleColab
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Talk to Gemini using the Gemini API and Vertex Speech-to-Text API in this example notebook:
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@GoogleColab
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Trying to speed up your notebook? Completed cells now show how long they ran for, and the currently running cell's runtime is shown in the status bar at the bottom of the screen.
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@GoogleColab
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Go to definition now available in the new editor: ctrl-click a class or method 🏃💨.
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@GoogleColab
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Dark theme is now supported! Check it out under Tools > Preferences > Theme 🌒🎉
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@GoogleColab
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Today we launched Colab Pay As You Go, a way for you to flexibly purchase additional compute with or without a subscription. With this anyone on a paid tier can upgrade their runtime to a premium GPU accelerator. No changes to our free-of-charge tier!
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@GoogleColab
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We just added a new feature that gives you the ability to preview a wide range of plot types for any pandas dataframe. Choose one you like and we’ll auto-insert the code into your notebook. Read more at the Colab blog:
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@GoogleColab
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🐶"Corgi Mode" now available in Tools > Preferences. 🐕
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@GoogleColab
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Connect to Sheets and use the Gemini API in Colab to tell Gemini about your most promising prospects and prepare personalized sales pitches to sell what you are good at - in this case, delicious lemonade.
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@GoogleColab
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Starting today paid users can select their preferred NVIDIA GPU. Visit Runtime > Change runtime type and choose between T4, V100, and A100. We'll do our best to assign your choice based on GPU availability.
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@GoogleColab
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Missing Monokai coloring on the new editor? We hear you! Starting today, you can enable the Monokai colorization for the new editor under Tools > Preferences > Editor > Colorization🎨
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@GoogleColab
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We’ve upgraded Colab to Python 3.10. Read more about it at and follow our publication to stay in the loop on future announcements!
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@GoogleColab
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6 years
New TPU example: Fashion MNIST in Colab:
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@GoogleColab
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Interested in working on Colab, helping us democratize machine learning? We're looking for a strong UX Researcher to add to the team (SEA or MTV based). Apply here and share your interest with us:
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@GoogleColab
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Gemini can generate holiday gift suggestions for the hardest of people to shop for. Use the Gemini API in Colab to generate gift ideas here:
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@GoogleColab
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We are happy to announce we launched Colab Enterprise yesterday! We remain committed to supporting our current users, including those on the free-of-charge tier. This launch won't change any of the great things about Colab. We're hard at work building new features for you now!
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1. We're bringing Colab to Google Cloud for better collaboration and productivity! Introducing Colab Enterprise: a managed service that combines the ease of use of @GoogleColab notebooks with enterprise-level security and compliance capabilities.
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@GoogleColab
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Vim support is now available through the updated editor. Opt in now to try it out! :𝚠𝚚
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@GoogleColab
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We've expanded access to our AI coding tools to our paid subscribers in Australia 🇦🇺 Canada 🇨🇦 India 🇮🇳 and Japan 🇯🇵. This includes natural language to code generation, code completion, and an integrated chatbot.
@GoogleColab
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✨ Today we're launching AI coding features to our Pro+ subscribers located in the United States, including natural language to code generation, code completion, and an integrated chatbot. We'd love to hear from you with positive examples of AI coding in Colab: please share! 1/
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@GoogleColab
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Open a notebook from GitHub in Colab with a single click using our new Chrome extension.
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@GoogleColab
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Need more disk space? We've doubled the size of disks in Colab Pro. No changes to notebooks are necessary. All Pro subscribers receive larger disks automatically.
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@GoogleColab
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🐈"Kitty Mode"🐱 now available in Tools > Preferences dialog under the "Miscellaneous" tab.
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@GoogleColab
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🎉 As of today Colab Pro and Pro+ can be purchased in Algeria 🇩🇿 Argentina 🇦🇷 Chile 🇨🇱 Ecuador 🇪🇨 Egypt 🇪🇬 Ghana 🇬🇭 Kenya 🇰🇪 Malaysia 🇲🇾 Nepal 🇳🇵 Nigeria 🇳🇬 Peru 🇵🇪 Rwanda 🇷🇼 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 South Africa 🇿🇦 Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Tunisia 🇹🇳 Ukraine 🇺🇦
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@GoogleColab
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Colab can now include a dataframe as part of the context when getting AI coding suggestions. Click 'Using ...' in the Generate control, and you'll get suggestions relevant to the dataframe you choose.
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@GoogleColab
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Power Mode is now live in Colab - rack up combos and see sparks fly. Happy April 1st!
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@GoogleColab
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We've launched Colab link previews in the Docs suite! You can convert Colab links for Drive notebooks into smart chips and you can request access to Colab Drive notebooks in line.
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@GoogleColab
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We’ve upgraded Colab to Python 3.9 and we’re planning further updates in the coming months. Read more about it at and follow our publication to stay in the loop on future announcements!
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@GoogleColab
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📰 Wondering what's new in Colab? 📰 We've started writing release notes, which you can find from the Help menu.
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@GoogleColab
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Vertex's advanced image generation capabilities are even better when you ask Gemini to do the prompting. In this Colab notebook, use Gemini to prompt Vertex to generate captivating images.
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@GoogleColab
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could run an entire section of a notebook in one shot? Or automatically run some cells whenever someone opens a notebook? Well, now you can! Read all about it at the Colab Blog:
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@GoogleColab
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Visit to generate a badge for your READMEs, websites, documents, etc. Just paste a URL to a notebook stored in GitHub, try out the test badge, and copy the HTML! Video:
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@GoogleColab
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We've been quiet here, but busy adding new features to Colab! Check out if you want to see how we spent our summer vacation ☀️🏖️
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@GoogleColab
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Everyone knows GPUs speed up ML training but did you know they can also turbocharge your analytics workflow? Our friends from @nvidia explain how to get started with @RAPIDSai cuDF.
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@GoogleColab
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The corgis and kitties in Colab have gotten costumes for Halloween!🎃🐈🐕 Check it out by enabling it under Tools > Preferences > Miscellaneous > Corgi Mode & Kitty Mode
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@GoogleColab
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Colab integration with BigQuery now entering preview: with a single click out of BigQuery you can jump from your query results into a Colab notebook to do further analysis. Learn more at
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@GoogleColab
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FYI: Colab is currently having an issue with a repeated login loop; we're looking into it.
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@GoogleColab
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Colab Pro is now available in Canada 🇨🇦🍁, sign up at
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@GoogleColab
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We'd recommend starting them with Stanford's Intro to Python tutorial, but if you want to go straight to fine-tuning with QLoRA to each their own!
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@GoogleColab
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Did you know there’s an official Colab blog? Check it out at . Click the follow button to stay informed about all things Colab!
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@GoogleColab
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The Colab runtime has been updated to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Read more about the release details, the fallback option in case you run into problems, and how we’re keeping Colab up to date at our official blog:
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@GoogleColab
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2 years
Did you know that `google.colab.files.view()` can be used to open files and directories from code? Documentation and examples:
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@GoogleColab
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Need access to your private GitHub repos in Colab? Just check the private repo permission setting in the Tools → Preferences... menu.
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@GoogleColab
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Error tracebacks now link to the source files:
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@GoogleColab
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We updated our ToS and users worried about big changes. Don't worry: we're fully committed to supporting all our users (subscribed or not). On Sep 29 we'll launch some exciting new updates for Colab, esp. increased visibility into compute usage for our paid users. Stay tuned!
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🎉 As of today Colab Pro and Pro+ can be purchased in Austria 🇦🇹 Belgium 🇧🇪 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Croatia 🇭🇷 Cyprus 🇨🇾 Czechia 🇨🇿 Denmark 🇩🇰 Estonia 🇪🇪 Finland 🇫🇮 Greece 🇬🇷 Hungary 🇭🇺 Latvia 🇱🇻 Lithuania 🇱🇹 Norway 🇳🇴 Portugal 🇵🇹 Romania 🇷🇴 Slovakia 🇸🇰 Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Sweden 🇸🇪
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@GoogleColab
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1 year
A well crafted notebook is a kind of living textbook and this is a great example. Professor Ashwin Rao of Stanford University has authored a fascinating Colab notebook explaining, at a high level, why Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed.
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Check out @AlokPattani 's notebook for everything you need to get started with BigQuery. It provides a hands-on, guided tour of a data science journey, demonstrating how to leverage the power of BigQuery from Colab.
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@GoogleColab
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Tired of jumping through hoops to use Google Cloud from a notebook? Thanks to @picardparis for a simpler, easier, and more secure way to leverage the power of Google Cloud from Colab. Read all about it at the Colab Blog:
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@GoogleColab
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Natural language to code generation can be accessed in any new blank code cell: click on Generate and type in a prompt. This will render generated code (including checking for licensing). The prompt is saved as a comment in the cell. 2/
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@GoogleColab
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🎉 🇮🇪 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇲🇦 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 🇨🇭 🇹🇷 🇦🇪 🎉 We appreciate your continued patience as we look to expand further: we expect to have another set of countries to announce soon!
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@GoogleColab
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4 years
Looking for something in your Colab notebooks? In the Drive search box, add type:application/vnd.google.colaboratory For example, this link shows all your notebooks.
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@GoogleColab
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5 years
📓💡Tip: Execute just part of a cell using 'Run selection' or the shortcut ⌘/Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
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@GoogleColab
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5 years
Drive notebooks are currently unavailable for many users. We're aware of the problem and are working with Drive to resolve the issue. Updates at
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@GoogleColab
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2 years
Having issues with Colab? * General issues and questions: * Account-specific issues: Help -> Send feedback We triage all incoming issues weekly.
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@GoogleColab
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10 months
Clicking the 'Colab AI' button will invoke the integrated chatbot. We've found it's especially useful when you have an empty notebook and need some help getting started on a task. It'll only answer questions about Colab and programming, if you have other questions, ask Bard! 4/
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@GoogleColab
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We'll be expanding access to US Pro subscribers in the coming days, and to the free-of-charge tier and other regions as soon as we are able. These are experimental features and we plan on improving them a lot over time! 🚀🚀🚀 end/
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@GoogleColab
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10 months
These features are just the beginning! We're imagining all of the different ways AI coding can be incorporated in your workflow, starting with error explanation. When you encounter runtime errors in execution, Colab will prompt you to ask for an error explanation in chat 5/
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@GoogleColab
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2 years
Starting as early as next week Google Workspace for Education accounts will be restricted from using Colab until your organization's admin enables access to Colab in the control panel. The visibility of this control will be gradually enabled. Learn more:
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@GoogleColab
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3 years
You can also choose to purchase a specific GPU, or a VM in a specific zone, giving you more control over your runtime environment. Read more here for instructions:
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@GoogleColab
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Code completions are rendered automatically when typing. Our models use the context of the notebook to improve suggestions. You can disable these suggestions in Settings > Editor > Automatically trigger code completions. 3/
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