Google Colab Pro is a substantial improvement to free-tier Colab but there are still a number of limitations that make alternatives to Colab Pro like Paperspace Gradient appealing.
Google AI Platform Notebooks are enterprise-grade notebooks best suited for those with compliance concerns who need to ingest data from GCP sources like BigQuery. Gradient is more like Google's other notebook product Colab but with advanced features.
In general, Azure notebooks are best for those who'd like to take advantage of starter credits from Microsoft or for those who are already entrenched in the Azure computing ecosystem while Gradient is best for running Free CPU and GPU instances without a lot of startup time or hassle.
In this article, we'll use Quilt to transfer versioned training data to a remote machine. We'll start with the Berkeley Segmentation Dataset, package the dataset, then train a PyTorch model for super-resolution imaging.
