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Public story · 2026-03-01 · source-backed
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 open-source option for self-hosted coding. Serious Claude Code CLI competitor.
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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 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 Vib...
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...
Ryan Dahl announced celld on August 5. It's a daemon built from V8, S3, SQLite, LTX and Tokio that runs the exact Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects JavaScript APIs and configuration on hardware you own. The architecture is the interesting part, not the API compatibility....
On June 24 Mistral set Medium 3.5 as the default in Le Chat, reporting 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified, ahead of Devstral 2 (Mistral via Releasebot). A European, open-leaning option clearing roughly 78% on SWE-Bench Verified is a credible alternative to US frontier coding models,...
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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