Google Colab

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Google Colab is a cloud-based Jupyter notebook environment that lets you write and execute Python code in your browser without local setup. It comes with popular ML and data science libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn) preinstalled and offers one-click access to hardware accelerators like GPUs and TPUs. Notebooks support rich text via Markdown, visualizations, and interactive widgets, making it easy to prototype models, explore data, and build reproducible demos. Colab integrates tightly with Google Drive for storage and sharing, and can pull from GitHub or connect to data sources like BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage. Collaboration features mirror Google Docs (sharing, comments), and sessions include ephemeral runtimes with managed dependencies. The free tier is ideal for learning, teaching, and quick experiments; Colab Pro/Pro+ provide longer runtimes, more RAM, and priority access to faster GPUs. For students, educators, and practitioners, Colab lowers the barrier to ML by combining zero-setup compute with easy collaboration and reproducible workflows.