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 ...

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.

The Google Bard AI chatbot can now complete various programming and software development tasks such as code generation, code debugging, and explanation of code.

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).