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Arabian Post
5 days ago
- Business
- Arabian Post
Mistral Code Sets New Benchmark for Enterprise AI Development
Mistral AI has unveiled Mistral Code, a comprehensive AI-powered coding assistant designed specifically for enterprise software development. The platform integrates advanced language models with secure, customisable deployment options, aiming to address the stringent compliance and security requirements of large organisations. Mistral Code offers a suite of features tailored for enterprise needs, including in-IDE assistance, on-premise deployment capabilities, and robust enterprise tooling. Built upon the open-source project Continue, it enhances the base with role-based access control, audit logging, and usage analytics. The assistant supports integration with popular development environments such as JetBrains IDEs and Visual Studio Code, currently available in private beta. A standout feature of Mistral Code is its emphasis on customisation. Enterprises can fine-tune the AI models to align with their specific codebases, facilitating more accurate code completions and refactoring suggestions. This level of adaptability is designed to improve developer productivity while maintaining alignment with organisational coding standards. ADVERTISEMENT Security and data sovereignty are central to Mistral Code's design. The platform allows for deployment in various environments, including cloud, reserved capacity, or air-gapped on-premises GPUs, ensuring that sensitive codebases remain within the organisation's control. This flexibility addresses common concerns about data exposure associated with cloud-based AI tools. Mistral AI's approach positions Mistral Code as a direct competitor to existing solutions like GitHub Copilot, particularly in scenarios where data privacy and customisation are paramount. By offering a platform that combines advanced AI capabilities with enterprise-grade security and customisation, Mistral AI aims to meet the complex needs of modern software development teams.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code
French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own "vibe coding" client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere's Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Mistral Code, a fork of the open-source project Continue, is an AI-powered coding assistant that bundles Mistral's models, an "in-IDE" assistant, local deployment options, and enterprise tools into a single package. A private beta is available as of Wednesday for JetBrains development platforms and Microsoft's VS Code. "Our goal with Mistral Code is simple: deliver best-in-class coding models to enterprise developers, enabling everything from instant completions to multi-step refactoring through an integrated platform deployable in the cloud, on reserved capacity, or air-gapped, on-prem GPUs," Mistral wrote in a blog post provided to TechCrunch. AI programming assistants are growing increasingly popular. While they still struggle to code quality software, their promise to boost coding productivity is pushing companies and developers to adopt them rapidly. One recent poll found that 76% of developers have used or were planning to use AI tools in their development processes last year. Mistral Code is said to be powered by a combination of in-house models including Codestral (for code autocomplete), Codestral Embed (for code search and retrieval), Devstral (for "agentic" coding tasks), and Mistral Medium (for chat assistance). The client supports more than 80 programming languages and a number of third-party plugins, and can reason over things like files, terminal outputs, and issues, the company said. Mistral claimed that customers including consulting firm Capgemini, Spanish and Portuguese bank Abanca, and French national railway company SNCF are using Mistral Code in production. "Customers can fine-tune or post-train the underlying models on private repositories or distill lightweight variants," Mistral explained in its blog post. "For IT managers, a rich admin console exposes granular platform controls, deep observability, seat management, and usage analytics." Mistral said it plans to continue making improvements to Mistral Code and contribute at least a portion of those upgrades to the Continue open source project. Founded in 2023, Mistral is a frontier model lab building a range of AI-powered services, including a chatbot platform, Le Chat, and mobile apps. It is backed by venture investors like General Catalyst, and has raised over €1.1 billion (roughly $1.24 billion) to date. A few weeks ago, Mistral launched the aforementioned Codestral, Devstral, and Mistral Medium models. Around the same time, the company rolled out Le Chat Enterprise, a corporate-focused chatbot service that offers tools like an AI agent builder, and integrates Mistral's models with third-party services like Gmail, Google Drive, and SharePoint. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch at Sign in to access your portfolio
TechCrunch
04-06-2025
- Business
- TechCrunch
Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code
French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own 'vibe coding' client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere's Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Mistral Code, a fork of the open source project Continue, is an AI-powered coding assistant that bundles Mistral's models, an 'in-IDE' assistant, local deployment options, and enterprise tooling into a single package. A private beta is available as of Wednesday for JetBrains development platforms and Microsoft's VS Code. 'Our goal with Mistral Code is simple: deliver best-in-class coding models to enterprise developers, enabling everything from instant completions to multi-step refactoring through an integrated platform deployable in the cloud, on reserved capacity, or air-gapped on-prem GPUs,' Mistral wrote in a blog post provided to TechCrunch. AI programming assistants are growing increasingly popular. While they still struggle to code quality software, their promise to boost coding productivity is pushing companies and developers to rapidly adopt them. One recent poll found that 76% of devs used or were planning to use AI tools in their development processes last year. The Mistral Code client and dashboards. Image Credits:Mistral According to Mistral, Mistral Code is powered by a combination of in-house models including Codestral (for code autocomplete), Codestral Embed (for code search and retrieval), Devstral (for 'agentic' coding tasks), and Mistral Medium (for chat assistance). The client supports more than 80 programming languages and a number of third-party plugins, and can reason over things like files, terminal outputs, and issues, Mistral says. Mistral claims that customers including consulting firm Capgemini, Spanish and Portuguese bank Abanca, and French national railway company SNCF are using Mistral Code in production. 'Customers can fine-tune or post-train the underlying models on private repositories or distill lightweight variants,' Mistral explains in its blog post. 'For IT managers, a rich admin console exposes granular platform controls, deep observability, seat management, and usage analytics.' Techcrunch event Save now through June 4 for TechCrunch Sessions: AI Save $300 on your ticket to TC Sessions: AI—and get 50% off a second. Hear from leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Khosla Ventures, and more during a full day of expert insights, hands-on workshops, and high-impact networking. These low-rate deals disappear when the doors open on June 5. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you've built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | REGISTER NOW Mistral says that, going forward, it plans to continue making improvements to Mistral Code and contribute a least a portion of those upgrades to the Continue open source project. Image Credits:Mistral Founded in 2023, Mistral is a frontier model lab aiming to build a range of AI-powered services including a chatbot platform, Le Chat, and mobile apps. It's backed by VCs like General Catalyst, and has raised over €1.1 billion (roughly $1.24 billion) to date. A few weeks ago, Mistral launched the aforementioned Codestral, Devstral, and Mistral Medium models. Around the same time, the company rolled out Le Chat Enterprise, a corporate-focused chatbot service that offers tools like an AI agent builder and integrates Mistral's models with third-party services like Gmail, Google Drive, and SharePoint.
Associated Press
27-02-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Continue Launches 1.0 with Open-Source IDE Extensions and a Hub that Empowers Developers to Build and Share Custom AI Code Assistants
$5M seed round raised from Heavybit, Y Combinator, and angels to meet developers where they are now SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 26, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- Continue, the open-source AI code assistant platform, today announced the launch of Continue 1.0, a major milestone on its journey to empower developers with fully customizable AI code assistants. Continue enables developers to create, share, and use custom AI code assistants with open-source IDE extensions that can now seamlessly leverage a vibrant hub of models, context, and other building blocks. With hundreds of thousands of users, 20k+ GitHub stars, and a thriving Discord community of 10k+ developers, Continue is setting a new standard for open-source AI-enhanced development. The release of Continue 1.0 includes a new hub that makes it frictionless to create AI code assistants with a registry for defining, managing, and sharing Continue building blocks. There are blocks published and maintained by verified partners like Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic, Codestral from Mistral, DeepSeek-R1 from Ollama, voyage-code-3 embeddings from Voyage AI, and MCP servers from Docker. Blocks and assistants may also be created and shared to the hub by individual developers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and other organizations. Also included is the first major release of Continue's open-source extensions for VS Code and JetBrains. Developers can use these extensions with assistants and blocks from the hub via a free, solo tier. Organizations can take advantage of paid teams and enterprise tiers. Working with early enterprise users such as Siemens, Morningstar, and IONOS helped to shape the product. The hub provides engineering leaders with governance, security, and infrastructure control over AI code assistants within their organizations. 'Continue 1.0 is a huge leap forward in making AI-powered development truly customizable, private, and developer-first. The 'one-size-fits-all' AI code assistant will be a thing of the past. With this release, we're making it easier than ever for individual developers and teams to take full control over their AI coding experience through both our open-source community and our hub of building blocks for custom AI code assistants,' said Ty Dunn, co-founder of Continue. Continue is built on the foundation of developer empowerment and data control. Unlike closed-source alternatives, Continue ensures that every developer has the power to decide how AI integrates into their coding environment. Key features of the teams and enterprise tiers on include: Standardize development practices: Teams can establish custom AI code assistants that help developers align with shared development, review, and testing practices Governance controls: Organizations can define and enforce policies around AI-assisted development, governing what blocks can be created, shared, and used within their teams Private data plane deployment: Enterprises can deploy a data plane within their own infrastructure, ensuring that all code and analytics remain secure without exposing API keys or sensitive data 'Developers thrive when they have the freedom to build with the best tools available. Continue 1.0 amplifies every developer, team, and organization with the power to choose and customize AI code assistants to fit their unique workflows and preferences. This launch isn't just about AI helping developers write code—it's about making AI a natural, customizable extension of how they already work. Continue gives developers superpowers that amplify and enhance the way they already work. This is why Heavybit has been investing in developer-first startups for more than a decade,' said Jesse Robbins, General Partner at Heavybit and co-founder of Chef. 'At Mistral, our mission has always been to democratize artificial intelligence. Our partnership with Continue perfectly aligns with our vision of a developer-first ecosystem where AI code assistants are both secure and customizable. Whether you need local, on-prem, in your VPC, on the public cloud, or via serverless APIs, you can use Mistral models with Continue,' said Arthur Mensch, co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI. 'Together, we're building the future of AI-powered development on a foundation of openness and trust.' 'We believe that when it comes to AI coding tools, developers should be able to consume with confidence. In this period of rapid change, confidence requires openness, pluggability, and modularity. Now is the time to embrace the transparency and innovation of open source solutions. We believe in Continue's approach, and we're excited to partner with them and the community to define this ecosystem,' said Craig McLuckie, co-founder of Stacklok, Kubernetes, and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation 'At YC, we invest in teams that put developers first, and Continue's 1.0 launch is a perfect example of that philosophy in action,' said Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator. He continued 'By making it easy to create custom AI code assistants, they're giving developers the power to tailor their coding experience like never before. This is a major step forward in building an open ecosystem where innovation and democratization go hand in hand.' Backed by Heavybit and Y Combinator, Continue has raised a total of $5 million in seed funding to create a developer ecosystem built on trust, privacy, and developer empowerment. With 1.0, Continue is not only revolutionizing the AI coding assistant landscape but also ensuring that developers everywhere have the tools they need to harness AI on their own terms. To learn more about Continue, visit If you're interested in working at Continue, apply online. About Continue Continue enables developers to create, share, and use custom AI code assistants. Loved by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide at organizations ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, our open-source IDE extensions fit into existing workflows, while letting users leverage our vibrant hub of models, context, and tools. Backed by Heavybit, Y Combinator, and angels, including Julien Chaumond (co-founder of Hugging Face), Lisha Li (founder of Rosebud AI), and Florian Leibert (co-founder of Mesosphere), Continue was founded in 2023 and is based in San Francisco. For more information, visit SOURCE: Continue
