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Colab is the tool Google uses to build Gemini, the easiest way to access TPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, and the best way to learn how to program in Python.
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Joined October 2017
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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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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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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๐๐ Colab has updated to Python 3.7! ๐๐. We've (finally) updated the default python version in Colab for all users. Try it out today!
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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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NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs are now available in Colab: faster computations with more available memory. Read more @
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๐ฉ 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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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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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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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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๐ง๐ท ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ต ๐น๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง.Colab Pro is now available in Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. Sign up at ๐ง๐ท ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ต ๐น๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง.
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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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๐งโ๐TPU v5e available on Colab!๐งโ๐.If your wish list includes 197 TFLOPs, 48 gb of RAM, and a boatload of CPUs, head on over to Colab and select v5e-1 TPU. v5e are only available for paid users for now.
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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 โ Settings โ Site โ Show desktop notifications (and allow browser notifications once prompted) to check it out.
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โจ 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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Good news: the space character in "My Drive" is no longer required!
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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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๐ Colab's markdown cells now include ๐emoji๐บ and ฮฆ LaTeX ฯ support! Start typing `:` followed by an emoji's name to select it from the drop-down menu, and `\` to trigger LaTeX completions ๐
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Our friends in Kaggle have made working across Colab and Kaggle easier than ever!.
๐ขKaggleโs notebook environment is now based on Colabโs Docker image! . What does this mean?.- Expect fewer dependency conflicts when developing across platforms .- uv is pre-installed making package installation fast. Get all the details in the announcement from our engineering
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We just released the ability to open any notebook from the @huggingface Hub directly into Colab with one mouse click. ๐ฅ.Blog post:
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You can now edit๐, create๐, save๐พ, and moveโก๏ธ files and folders๐ through file browser on the left.
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๐ฅณ 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. ๐ง.
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๐จGPU price drop ๐จ. We've reduced the compute unit price of NVIDIA A100 and L4 GPUs by 20% ๐ T4s saw small drops as well. High-mem CPUs increased slightly to match costs. Let us know how Colab is working for you and what we can do to improve!.
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Weโre 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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We've expanded the availability of โจGenAIโจ in Colab (in eligible countries):. - AI-enabled code completions are now available for users in our free-of-charge tier!.- Workspace accounts now have access to all GenAI features!. Enjoy Gemini in Colab! ๐ฆพ๐ฆพ๐ฆพ
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๐ฅYour data just got more interactive! ๐ฅ With our new InteractiveSheet feature you can create and edit Google Sheets from a Colab notebook! ๐คฏ Perfect for analyzing or editing data in a GUI or just simply exporting outputs to Sheets. Streamline data workflows with #GoogleSheets
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Try out our updated editor with improvements to autocomplete and inline documentation. Feedback welcome!
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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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NVIDIA's Rapids cuDF library is now available by default on Colab. It can accelerate pandas code by up to 50x on Colab with zero code changes. โก๐ผ Try acceleration on pandas workloads with this 10-minute guide:
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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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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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Colab now has NVIDIA L4 runtimes for our paid users! ๐ 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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๐ 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. ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ง๐ฉ ๐จ๐ด ๐ญ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ณ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฌ ๐น๐ผ ๐ป๐ณ.
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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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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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Check out this Advanced Colab tutorial by @Sam_Witteveen, one of Google's Developer Experts for Machine Learning. It covers using secrets, custom snippets, Colab AI, custom VMs, and our favorite: kitty mode ๐ป!
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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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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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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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Weโve upgraded Colab to Python 3.8 and weโre 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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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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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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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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Talk to Gemini using the Gemini API and Vertex Speech-to-Text API in this example notebook:.
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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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Go to definition now available in the new editor: ctrl-click a class or method ๐๐จ.
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Dark theme is now supported! Check it out under Tools > Preferences > Theme ๐๐
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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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๐ถ"Corgi Mode" now available in Tools > Preferences. ๐
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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 weโll auto-insert the code into your notebook. Read more at the Colab blog:
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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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๐ฅณ You can now directly import Gemini API keys into Colab from Google AI Studio, and automatically import keys when you export code from Google AI Studio!
We just shipped the ability to automatically import Gemini API keys into @GoogleColab out of the box. When you click "Get code" in AI Studio and "Open in Colab" you should see this happen. Time to first API call is shrinking day by day! ๐ข
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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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๐ Supercharge your Colab notebooks! ๐. Now you can easily deploy them as scalable web apps on Cloud Run with just a few clicks. Check out our example notebook and start building powerful apps today:.
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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 > Colorization๐จ
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Weโve 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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We've increased the size of our NVIDIA A100 fleet for paid users by around 2x, and for the last several days we've seen 100% success rate for users requesting A100s.
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Check out this Beginner's Guide to Colab produced by one of Google's Developer Experts for Machine Learning, @Sam_Witteveen. Thanks for the video Sam!.
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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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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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๐จL4 price drop ๐จ. We've reduced the compute unit price of NVIDIA L4 GPUs by 38%! ๐ A100s and T4s saw small drops as well. We hope to continue lowering rates as underlying costs change.
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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!.
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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Vim support is now available through the updated editor. Opt in now to try it out! :๐ ๐
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We've expanded access to our AI coding tools to our paid subscribers in Australia ๐ฆ๐บ Canada ๐จ๐ฆ India ๐ฎ๐ณ and Japan ๐ฏ๐ต. This includes natural language to code generation, code completion, and an integrated chatbot.
โจ 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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Open a notebook from GitHub in Colab with a single click using our new Chrome extension.
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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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๐"Kitty Mode"๐ฑ now available in Tools > Preferences dialog under the "Miscellaneous" tab.
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๐ As of today Colab Pro and Pro+ can be purchased in Algeria ๐ฉ๐ฟ Argentina ๐ฆ๐ท Chile ๐จ๐ฑ Ecuador ๐ช๐จ Egypt ๐ช๐ฌ Ghana ๐ฌ๐ญ Kenya ๐ฐ๐ช Malaysia ๐ฒ๐พ Nepal ๐ณ๐ต Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ Peru ๐ต๐ช Rwanda ๐ท๐ผ Saudi Arabia ๐ธ๐ฆ South Africa ๐ฟ๐ฆ Sri Lanka ๐ฑ๐ฐ Tunisia ๐น๐ณ Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ.
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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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Power Mode is now live in Colab - rack up combos and see sparks fly. Happy April 1st!
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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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Our friends at Google Research used Colab to interface with their new models! Check out CT Foundation, a new medical foundation tool that helps you train models on CT scans in Colab. Read and sign up here for access:
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Weโve upgraded Colab to Python 3.9 and weโre 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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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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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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๐ฐ Wondering what's new in Colab? ๐ฐ. We've started writing release notes, which you can find from the Help menu.
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Wouldnโt 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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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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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 โ๏ธ๐๏ธ.
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The corgis and kitties in Colab have gotten costumes for Halloween!๐๐๐. Check it out by enabling it under Tools > Preferences > Miscellaneous > Corgi Mode & Kitty Mode
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We've expanded the availability of GenAI in Colab powered by Gemini to the following countries: Austria ๐ฆ๐น, Belgium ๐ง๐ช, Bulgaria ๐ง๐ฌ, Croatia ๐ญ๐ท, Cyprus ๐จ๐พ, Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ, Denmark ๐ฉ๐ฐ, Estonia ๐ช๐ช, Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ, France ๐ซ๐ท, Germany ๐ฉ๐ช, Greece ๐ฌ๐ท, Hungary ๐ญ๐บ, Iceland ๐ฎ๐ธ [contโฆ].
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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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FYI: Colab is currently having an issue with a repeated login loop; we're looking into it.
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Colab Pro is now available in Canada ๐จ๐ฆ๐, sign up at
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We recently hit a milestone: in the last 30 days over one million Colab users accessed our โจGemini-powered Code AI featuresโจ. Learn more from our team here!
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๐ Colab Pro and Pro+ now support Workspace organizations! ๐ปThis gives Workspace customers of all shapes and sizes the ability to buy Colab Pro and Pro+ at discounted rates for longer commitments:
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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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Did you know thereโs an official Colab blog? Check it out at Click the follow button to stay informed about all things Colab!.
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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 weโre keeping Colab up to date at our official blog:
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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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Need access to your private GitHub repos in Colab? Just check the private repo permission setting in the Tools โ Preferences. menu.
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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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๐ As of today Colab Pro and Pro+ can be purchased in Austria ๐ฆ๐น Belgium ๐ง๐ช Bulgaria ๐ง๐ฌ Croatia ๐ญ๐ท Cyprus ๐จ๐พ Czechia ๐จ๐ฟ Denmark ๐ฉ๐ฐ Estonia ๐ช๐ช Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ Greece ๐ฌ๐ท Hungary ๐ญ๐บ Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป Lithuania ๐ฑ๐น Norway ๐ณ๐ด Portugal ๐ต๐น Romania ๐ท๐ด Slovakia ๐ธ๐ฐ Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ and Sweden ๐ธ๐ช.
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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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Welcome Omar!!.
Exciting times ahead! . I'm very excited to announce that I'm joining Google to work on the Gemini API, open models (Gemma and friends), Colab, AI Studio, and family! ๐ค. Let's ship and go brrr ๐ฅ๐ฅณ.
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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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