French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding, as the company seeks to catch up to bigger AI labs like Anthropic and other coding-focused LLMs. This announcement follows the recent launch of the Mistral 3 family of open-weight models, and confirms Mistral’s intent to close in on its bigger and better-funded AI rivals. The unicorn is also jumping into the ‘vibe-coding’ race that has fueled the rise of companies like Cursor and Supabase with Mistral Vibe, a new command-line interface (CLI) aimed at facilitating code automation through natural language, with tools for file manipulation, code searching, version control, and command execution.

Full report : Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment.