Introducing Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ for Google Workspace

What’s changing

Currently, Google Workspace admins can  turn Colab on for their usersallowing them to access the free version of Colab. Beginning today, Google is pleased to announce the Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ standalone subscriptions for Google Workspace customers:

• Colab Pro offers 100 compute units that grant access to additional poGooglerful GPUs, memory, features, and productivity enhancements enabled with AI assistance.
• Colab Pro+ gives you all the benefits of Colab Pro like productivity enhancements enabled with AI assistance, plus an additional 400 compute units for a total of 500 per month that grant access to additional powerful GPUs, along with background execution for our longest-running sessions.

Who’s impacted

Administrators and users 

Why it’s important

Colab cung cấp quyền truy cập vào các tài nguyên tính toán mạnh mẽ của Google, có thể được sử dụng để đào tạo các mô hình machine learning  và thực hiện các tác vụ dữ liệu chuyên sâu khác — tất cả từ trình duyệt web của bạn. Nó có thể được sử dụng cho nhiều tác vụ khoa học dữ liệu và máy học, bao gồm:

• Exploratory data analysis
• Phát triển với API Gemini
• Machine learning model development
• Natural language processing such as text classification and sentiment analysis
• Image processing such as object detection and image classification.

Google knows that many Colab users are also Google Workspace users, especially those within educational institutions. Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ can help enhance their work and research with more compute units, faster GPUs, more memory and more.

Further, these offerings can help admins efficiently subscribe an entire team or organization to Colab, thereby minimizing the friction associated with setting up individual accounts for each user. By managing subscriptions at the group level, organizations can more effectively support collaborative workflows and ensure that all team members have access to the resources they need.

Who’s impacted

• Admins 
  • Access to the Admin console is required to initiate purchase. To purchase Workspace Colab Pro or Colab Pro+, go to Billing > Get more services > More products. Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to assign licenses to users after purchase, as Googlell as available Google Workspace subscriptions.
  • For Google Workspace for Education K-12 customers: The access control for Colab is OFF by default and requires Admins to enable this control if they want users in their domain to access Google Colab. Before turning access to Collab ON, Admins are required to obtain parental consent for <18 users because Colab is included as an Additional Service. Consent can be requested with this notice template.

• End users 
• • Colab is OFF by default and can be enabled by your Admin.
  • Note that if you have purchased Colab's “Pay As You Go” offering for yourself, you can continue using it in addition with Colab Pro and Pro+.

Rollout pace

• Gradually rolling out over the coming months to all customers

Availability

• Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ are standalone subscriptions available to all Google Workspace customers with a verified domain. 

Source: Gimasys