Mistral Devstral 2 and Vibe
https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli
The European company Mistral AI is known for its LLMs independent of the US/China. They have updated their programming model and finally released their CLI. These announcements are extremely important for the development of the open-source AI ecosystem in software development.
https://openrouter.ai/mistralai/devstral-2512:free
The new generation of models is called Devstral 2 (123B) and Devstral Small 2 (24B), released under flexible licenses: modified MIT for Devstral 2 and Apache 2.0 for Devstral Small 2. Devstral 2 demonstrates an impressive 72.2% on the SWE-bench benchmark for open models.
The Small version can run locally on NVIDIA hardware, although the larger model (due to its density, not MoE architecture) will require serious hardware like a Mac Studio or several 3090/4090 GPUs.
Currently, Devstral 2 is offered for free via API. The model is already available in Kilo Code and Cline. According to feedback, it is quite mediocre at generating websites, frontend, and animation — it works better with small tasks involving local Python scripts.
https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/496007-get-started-with-mistral-vibe
Mistral Vibe CLI is like Claude Code, an open-source command-line tool that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, based on Devstral models. It can also be run in Zed. It features interface themes, Git integration, MCP support, and agents with custom settings. It supports both interactive and autonomous operation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205437
Commentators noted that "Vibe" sounds like the product is geared towards vibe-coding "played around with an agent and let it churn something out" rather than controlled work by a professional programmer. Some directly call this message "the opposite" of what's needed in real work: augmenting humans, not replacing the process with "chat + tools, good luck."
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