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Google Upgrates. are available now wherever you get your podcasts. Google upgrades CoLab with an AI agent tool.

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starting with three big headlines, Engage.

So Google CoLab, Google's cloud-based to notebook tool for coding, data science, and

AI, is gaining a new AI agent tool, data science agent, to help Colab users quickly clean data,

visualize trends, and get insights on their uploaded datasets. I think they should have went

with calling it

Lieutenant Commander Data, but maybe that's just me. Now, first announced at Google's

I.O. Developer Conference early last year, data science agent was initially launched as a

standalone project. However, Google decided to integrate it into COLAB with the goal of helping

users access the agent directly from a COLAB notebook, said Kathy Coravec, director of product at Google Labs in an interview.

Data Science agents is available for free, as of this week in co-lab, although Colab limits free users to a relatively low amount of computing.

Google offers a range of paid co-lab plans with higher limits starting at $9.99.

Data science agent is primarily aimed at data scientists and AI use cases,

but the agent can also help find API anomalies, analyze customer data, and write SQL code.

All users need to do is upload their data and ask the agent a question.

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