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 ...

What is Google Colab? Google Colab (short for colaboratory) is a cloud-based Jupyter Notebook environment that enables users to write and execute Python code directly in their browser.

That changed last month, and the company is now expanding AI coding capabilities to Google Colab, its cloud-based Python development environment.

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.