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 ...

With Google data science agent, one scientist estimated that their data processing time dropped from 1 week to five minutes.

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.

Google is updating its Bard AI chatbot to support code generation. Developers can now use Bard to generate code, debug existing code, and help explain lines of code.

Google is hoping to reintroduce Bard to a more favorable reception (and like Bing Chat using OpenAI's GPT-4 on the QT, Bard has been using PaLM 2).

Google's Bard gained a handful of new features and functions Thursday in the chatbot AI's latest round of updates, including 40 new languages and the ability to speak!