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Google bundles premium Colab compute access into AI subscription plans

Google is now including premium Google Colab benefits within its Google AI Pro and Ultra subscription tiers, giving subscribers access to faster GPU and TPU resources without paying separately for Colab Pro or Pro+. AI Ultra subscribers receive additional perks such as premium GPU access and uninterrupted background code execution. Existing standalone Colab subscribers can stack their compute unit balances with the new plan benefits, which Google says will roll out over the next few weeks.

androidauthority.com · 2026-09-25

New Colab series teaches LLM engineering skills using raw APIs, no frameworks

A free set of runnable Colab notebooks called AI Engineer Notebooks has been released to teach applied LLM engineering skills like RAG, agents, evals, fine-tuning, and serving. The curriculum deliberately avoids frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex, instead having learners build agent loops and retrieval pipelines from raw API calls using the free Groq API. Two GPU-heavy topics, LoRA fine-tuning and self-hosted serving, include optional appendices tested on Colab's free T4 GPU.

github.com · 2026-08-27