lab Mistral AI · 799d ago

Mistral releases open-weight 22B code model Codestral

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Mistral AI has introduced Codestral, its first open-weight generative AI model explicitly designed for code generation tasks. The 22B-parameter model is trained on a diverse dataset of over 80 programming languages and features a 32k context window.

Codestral supports fill-in-the-middle (FIM) mechanisms to complete partial code, write tests, and generate functions across languages like Python, Java, C++, and JavaScript.
It outperforms competitors in RepoBench, a long-range evaluation for code generation, leveraging its larger context window compared to models with 4k, 8k, or 16k limits.
The model is available under the Mistral AI Non-Production License for research and testing, with commercial licenses available on demand.
Codestral can be accessed via a dedicated beta endpoint at codestral.mistral.ai or the standard api.mistral.ai endpoint.
Integrations are available through LlamaIndex, LangChain, Continue.dev, and Tabnine for IDEs like VSCode and JetBrains.

The release aims to provide developers with a fast, high-quality tool for code generation and autocomplete, reducing latency while maintaining performance comparable to larger models.

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