SMRTR ProgrammingDec 10, 2025Ars Technica

A new open AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options

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French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model that scores 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified, positioning it among top performers for solving real GitHub issues. Alongside the model, Mistral launched Mistral Vibe, a CLI tool that enables developers to interact with Devstral models directly in their terminal, maintaining project context and executing commands autonomously.

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