Mistral AI releases Codestral

Released Codestral — a 22B code model covering 80+ programming languages, with 32K context and fill-in-the-middle, under the new Mistral AI Non-Production License

Why it matters

Introduced a non-production license that publishes weights for research and testing only, with commercial use requiring a separate license

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Officialmistral.aihttps://mistral.ai/news/codestral

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