Getting Started with Google Colab: Your Quick Start Guide for LLM Work

In this video, we walk through how to use Google Colab and explore its most important features for AI and LLM development. You’ll learn how to create notebooks, connect to compute instances, manage files, use secret keys securely, and access GPUs for training and experimentation. This lesson is designed to help you get comfortable with Google Colab as a development environment before building and fine-tuning large language models. You’ll learn how to: * Create and navigate Google Colab notebooks * Connect to runtime instances and understand RAM and disk limits * Use code and text cells to structure experiments * Organize notebooks with sections and table of contents * Find and replace code efficiently * Mount Google Drive and manage project files * Store and use API keys securely with Colab secrets * Switch between CPU, GPU, and TPU runtimes * Use terminals, variables, and collaboration features Timestamps: 0:00 - What Google Colab is and why it’s useful 1:03 - Connecting to a runtime and understanding resources 2:03 - Colab plans and compute units 3:00 - Organizing notebooks with sections and text blocks 4:23 - Mounting Google Drive and using built-in code snippets 5:01 - Managing secret API keys securely 7:13 - Uploading files and running all cells 8:24 - Enabling GPU runtime and using the terminal Watch this video if you’re getting started with AI development, running experiments without local setup, or preparing to fine-tune and test large language models in the cloud. This video is part of the LLM Engineering and Deployment Certification Program by Ready Tensor. ✅ Join the Program: https://www.readytensor.ai/programs/llm-engg-and-deployment/ About Ready Tensor: Ready Tensor helps AI/ML professionals build and evaluate intelligent, goal-driven systems and showcase them through certifications, competitions, and real-world project publications. Learn more: https://www.readytensor.ai/ Like the video? Subscribe and let us know what other tools and workfl