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December 9, 2025
Mistral AI surfs vibe coding tailwinds with new coding models
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.

TL;DR
- Mistral AI launched Devstral 2, a new AI model for coding.
- Mistral Vibe CLI was introduced to facilitate code automation via natural language.
- Devstral 2 features persistent history and context awareness, scanning file structures and Git statuses.
- Devstral 2 requires significant GPU resources (four H100 GPUs) and has 123 billion parameters.
- Devstral Small, a smaller version with 24 billion parameters, is deployable on consumer hardware.
- Devstral 2 uses a modified MIT license, while Devstral Small uses Apache 2.0.
- API pricing for Devstral 2 is $0.40/$2.00 per million tokens (input/output) after a free period.
- API pricing for Devstral Small is $0.10/$0.30 per million tokens.
- Mistral AI is valued at €11.7 billion ($13.8 billion) after a Series C funding round.
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