Google Colab

Google Colab is a hosted Jupyter notebook environment that runs in the browser with ready to use Python and preinstalled data science libraries plus optional GPU and TPU accelerators. You sign in with a Google account open a notebook and start coding without drivers packages or CUDA setup. The platform mounts Google Drive for storage supports GitHub import and provides secure sharing and comments for teamwork. Colab introduced compute units for predictable consumption and offers both a free tier and paid options including Pay as You Go Colab Pro and Colab Pro Plus which unlocks faster and more stable hardware longer runtimes more RAM and higher priority on premium GPUs. Typical projects include experimentation with deep learning tutorials data analysis computer vision and NLP research and classroom labs. Because environments are ephemeral good practice is to pin dependencies save notebooks and sync datasets to Drive or Cloud Storage. Teams often use Colab for ideation spikes before moving workloads to managed training jobs or on premise rigs. The appeal is the combination of instant notebooks modern accelerators simple collaboration and transparent costs that scale from student to professional workloads.