The introduction of Colab Enterprise comes as demand for AI in businesses continues to grow. The service allows for collaboration across data teams, with shared notebooks that can be used across team members and environments. Google has been gradually transitioning Colab from an experiment to a fully featured paid product, with Colab Enterprise being the latest addition. The service meets many of the expectations of enterprises, including terms of service agreements and governance and compliance guarantees.
Key takeaways:
- Google has launched Colab Enterprise, an enterprise tier of its service that allows users to write and execute Python code through a browser.
- Colab Enterprise combines Colab notebooks with enterprise-level security and compliance support capabilities, and provides access to the full range of capabilities in Vertex AI, Google’s managed AI service.
- Users can utilize prebuilt machine learning models in Vertex AI’s model library, Model Garden, and a range of model fine-tuning tools, data science tooling and compute resources for training, testing and deploying models.
- Colab Enterprise also allows for integration with Google’s BigQuery platform for data extraction, and notebooks can be shared across team members and environments for collaborative work.