What’s changing

Currently, Google Workspace admins tin turn Colab connected for their users, allowing them to entree nan free type of Colab. Beginning today, we’re pleased to denote nan Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ standalone subscriptions for Google Workspace customers:

  • Colab Pro offers 100 compute units that assistance entree to further powerful GPUs, memory, features, and productivity enhancements enabled pinch AI assistance.
  • Colab Pro+ gives you each nan benefits of Colab Pro for illustration productivity enhancements enabled pinch AI assistance, positive an further 400 compute units for a full of 500 per period that assistance entree to further powerful GPUs, on pinch inheritance execution for our longest-running sessions.



Who’s impacted


Admins and extremity users


Why it’s important


Colab provides entree to Google's powerful computational resources, which tin beryllium utilized to train instrumentality learning models and execute different data-intensive tasks — each from your web browser. It tin beryllium utilized for a assortment of information subject and instrumentality learning tasks, including:


  • Exploratory information analysis
  • Developing pinch nan Gemini API
  • Machine learning exemplary development
  • Natural connection processing such arsenic matter classification and sentiment analysis
  • Image processing specified as entity discovery and image classification.

We cognize that galore Colab users are besides Google Workspace users, particularly those wrong acquisition institutions. Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ tin thief heighten their activity and investigation pinch much compute units, faster GPUs, much representation and more.


Further, these offerings tin thief admins efficiently subscribe an full squad aliases statement to Colab, thereby minimizing nan clash associated pinch mounting up individual accounts for each user. By managing subscriptions astatine nan group level, organizations tin much efficaciously support collaborative workflows and guarantee that each squad members person entree to nan resources they need.


Getting started

  • Admins: 
    • Access to nan Admin console is required to initiate purchase. To acquisition Workspace Colab Pro aliases Colab Pro+, spell to Billing > Get much services > More products. Visit nan Help Center to study much astir really to assign licenses to users aft purchase, arsenic good arsenic available Google Workspace subscriptions.
    • For Google Workspace for Education K-12 customers: The entree power for Colab is OFF by default and requires Admins to alteration this power if they want users successful their domain to entree Google Colab. Before turning entree to Colab ON, Admins are required to get parental consent for <18 users because Colab is included arsenic an Additional Service. Consent tin beryllium requested pinch this notice template. 



  • End users: 
    • Colab is OFF by default and tin beryllium enabled by your Admin. 
    • Note that if you person purchased Colab's “Pay As You Go” offering for yourself, you tin proceed utilizing it successful summation pinch Colab Pro and Pro+. 

Rollout pace

  • Gradually rolling retired complete nan coming months to each customers

Availability

  • Colab Pro and Colab Pro+ are standalone subscriptions disposable to each Google Workspace customers pinch a verified domain. 

Resources

  • Google Workspace Admin Help: Google Workspace add-ons
  • Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Google Colab connected aliases disconnected for users
  • Google Workspace Admin Help: Assign Colab licenses to users
  • Google Workspace Admin Help: Notice template for schools erstwhile gathering genitor aliases guardian consent
  • Google Workspace Admin Help: Choose your Google Workspace edition
  • Google Workspace Admin Help: Verify your domain for Google Workspace