[](#what-is-google-colab)What is Google Colab? ---------------------------------------------- Google Colab is a cloud-based platform that lets you write and execute Python code right from your browser, without having to install anything or worry about setting up Python. [](#what-are-notebooks)What are notebooks? ------------------------------------------ Colab uses **notebooks**: interactive documents that contain both code and other elements like paragraphs, equations, and images. Notebooks are a great prototyping tool for data scientists, researchers, and developers to create and share documents that contain live working code. [](#running-replicate-models-on-colab)Running Replicate models on Colab ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You can run any public Replicate model in a notebook with just a few lines of Python code. To get started, [check out the Replicate Python notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1cLthjBaZ6qSRsI5izrgq95tNonRYnvxX) [](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1cLthjBaZ6qSRsI5izrgq95tNonRYnvxX)