Colab runs inside VS Code
Google Colab now integrates directly into VS Code with free T4 GPU access and local file support, removing a common 'no‑GPU' blocker for hands‑on ML experimentation. That means machine‑learning experiments and notebooks can be run in a full IDE without shelling out for cloud GPUs. (x.com)
Google published the official Colab VS Code extension on Nov. 13, 2025 in a post authored by Spencer Shumway, Kevin Eger and Ashley Toney. The extension appears in the Visual Studio Marketplace and is also published to the vendor-neutral Open VSX registry for VS Code derivatives. Built on top of the Jupyter extension, the release lets a.ipynb in a local workspace execute on a Colab runtime so notebooks can live inside a larger project or Git repository while running on Google’s servers. Marketplace command names include Select Kernel > Colab > Auto Connect and Colab: Mount Google Drive to Server, and the extension surfaces actions like Colab: Sign Out and Colab: Remove Server. The Colab‑VS‑Code codebase is public on GitHub under an Apache‑2.0 license and shows active development, including a recent commit adding a DriveClient to interact with the Google Drive API. The extension page notes it does not collect client‑side usage data and points users to Colab’s Terms of Service and Google’s Privacy Policy, with security advisories handled through the project’s GitHub repository.
