Mistral AI open-sources new Codestral large language model for developers

May 29, 2024: Mistral AI Unveils Open-Source Codestral for Developers - Mistral AI introduced Codestral, an open-source large language model geared towards easing software development challenges. Featuring knowledge of over 80 programming languages and capable of understanding expansive code with its large context window, Codestral demonstrates superior performance in coding tasks. Ideal for code generation, interpretation, and debugging, it outshone competing models in internal evaluations. Developers can access Codestral for research, while a commercial version is available via a cloud API, amid reports of Mistrals ongoing $600 million funding round valuing the company at $6 billion.