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Mistral's Codestral: The First AI Model for Code Generation

Chrissie Wong

Chrissie Wong

29 May 2024

Codestral, Mistral's first generative artificial intelligence model for code, has been released. Codestral is the name of the first generative artificial intelligence model for coding that was produced by Mistral, a French artificial intelligence business that is valued at $6 billion and is supported by Microsoft.

Although it is similar to other code-generating models, Codestral is intended to assist developers in writing code and interacting with it. According to a blog post writt...employees in the context of the company's business activities.'

Codestral may have been trained in part on content that is protected by intellectual property rights. In the blog post, Mistral did not confirm or refute this information; nonetheless, it would not be surprising if it were true; there is evidence that the startup's past training datasets contained material that was protected by intellectual property rights.

The mistral Image credit goes to Mistral for the Codestral Codestral is sure to feed the argument about whether or not it is wise to rely on code-generating models as programming assistants, despite the fact that it might not be realistic for the majority of developers and would only result in modest improvements in terms of performance.