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 [![Downloads](https://pepy.tech/badge/atomai/month)](https://pepy.tech/project/atomai)
 
 [![Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/pycroscopy/atomai/blob/master/examples/notebooks/Quickstart_AtomAI_in_the_Cloud.ipynb)
-[![Gitpod ready-to-code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Gitpod-ready--to--code-blue?logo=gitpod)](https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/pycroscopy/atomai)
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 # AtomAI