Why it matters: Google is bringing a fresh touch of AI paint to yet another internet service, providing coders with cheap, accessible resources to run Python code in a web browser. Colab will ...

Colab Cons. Colab is still a relatively closed environment; at one point, I wanted to add a Python package and couldn't; I was told on a support forum that there was no way to run the code because ...

It now also features integration with Google's other products and can export code to Colab, the company's cloud-based notebook environment for Python, as well as help users write functions for Sheets.