diff --git a/utils/general.py b/utils/general.py
index 68c0736f65fa..0e76792a08d5 100644
--- a/utils/general.py
+++ b/utils/general.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 cv2.setNumThreads(0)  # prevent OpenCV from multithreading (incompatible with PyTorch DataLoader)
 os.environ['NUMEXPR_MAX_THREADS'] = str(NUM_THREADS)  # NumExpr max threads
 os.environ['OMP_NUM_THREADS'] = '1' if platform.system() == 'darwin' else str(NUM_THREADS)  # OpenMP (PyTorch and SciPy)
+os.environ['TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL'] = '2'  # suppress verbose TF compiler warnings in Colab
 
 
 def is_ascii(s=''):