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Mistral dropped the Mistral 3 family: Large 3 (675B total, 41B active MoE, Apache 2.0, #2 on LMArena for OSS non-reasoning) plus Ministral 3 at 3B/8B/14B. Devstral 2 (123B) and Devstral Small 2 (24B) are coding-specific with 256K context. The headline for builders: Mistral Vibe CLI is an open-source terminal coding agent with Zed IDE integration, project-aware context, and Agent Communication Protocol support — currently free via API. What to do: Try Vibe CLI if you use Zed. Devstral Small 2 at 24B with 256K context is a strong candidate for local coding assistance. (Mistral Blog, Devstral 2)
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Mistral's Vibe CLI is a new open-source terminal coding agent with Zed IDE integration, project-aware context, and Agent Communication Protocol support. Built on Devstral 2 (123B, 256K context). Currently free via Mistral API. Combined with Devstral Small 2 (24B), this gives b...
When the meter's running hot, the obvious move is a cheaper model that's actually good. Mistral shipped one. Devstral 2 (123B, modified MIT) scores 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified. Devstral Small 2 (24B, Apache 2.0) hits 68.0%. Both carry 256K context. Mistral claims 7x cost effic...
Mistral ships three products: Devstral 2 (123B, modified MIT) at 72.2% SWE-bench Verified and 7x better cost efficiency than Claude Sonnet. Vibe 2.0 CLI adds custom subagents, slash-command skills, and unified agent modes. Devstral Small 2 (24B, Apache 2.0) is the strongest op...
Finally, a story about building something instead of worrying about something. Mistral released Voxtral TTS on March 26, an open-source text-to-speech model built on Ministral 3B. The numbers are striking: 90ms time-to-first-audio, 6x real-time factor (a 10-second clip generat...
13. Claude Code v2.1.63 Changelog 14. Windsurf Wave 13 15. Mistral — Devstral 2 + Vibe CLI 16. The Register — Lovable Breach
Released August 4 under Apache 2.0, reframing moderation as policy-adaptive question answering: write your rule in plain language, get a calibrated safety score from a single token, no retraining, one interface for text and images. Mistral claims it matches open guard models u...
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