Google Colab is a free Jupyter notebook environment that allows users to write and execute Python code in their browser, with free access to GPUs. It offers programmers the ability to write and execute Python code, document notebooks with mathematical equations, import and export notebooks to Google Drive and GitHub, integrate popular machine learning libraries like TensorFlow and PyTorch, and access free GPU-enabled cloud computing resources.

1. Google Colab - Introduction

2. Introduction
• Google is quite aggressive in AI research
• Provided framework called TensorFlow –open sourced
• Provided free Jupyter notebook environment called
Colaboratory or colab
• allows you to write and execute Python in your browser
• Zero configuration required
• Free access to GPUs
• Easy sharing
• supports many popular machine learning libraries
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3. What Colab Offers You?
As a programmer, you can perform the following using Google Colab.
• Write and execute code in Python
• Document your code that supports mathematical equations
• Create/Upload/Share notebooks
• Import/Save notebooks from/to Google Drive
• Import/Publish notebooks from GitHub
• Import external datasets e.g. from Kaggle
• Integrate PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV
• Free Cloud service with free GPU
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