@_philschmid: Google Colab CLI and Skills are out. Full Colab runtimes from your terminal. - GPU/TPU provisioning (colab --gpu A100) …
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A new CLI tool for Google Colab enables GPU/TPU provisioning, remote script execution, and interactive REPL access from the terminal, with built-in agent skills for automated tasks like fine-tuning models.
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Google Colab CLI and Skills are out. Full Colab runtimes from your terminal.
- GPU/TPU provisioning (colab –gpu A100)
- Remote script execution (colab exec)
- Interactive console/REPL access
- Built-in agent skill
Tell your agent “fine-tune Gemma 3 1B on this dataset” and it provisions a GPU, runs the training, downloads the adapter weights. Fully automatic.
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