Vertex AI Workbench instances
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Vertex AI Workbench instances are Jupyter notebook-based development environments
for the entire data science workflow. Vertex AI Workbench instances are prepackaged with
JupyterLab
and have a preinstalled suite of deep learning packages, including support for the
TensorFlow and PyTorch frameworks.
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