Mistral launches powerful Devstral 2 coding model including open source, laptop-friendly version
FeaturedCarl Franzen December 9, 2025 Credit: VentureBeat made with Reve on Fal.aiFrench AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie developers.Just days after releasing its powerful open source, general purpose Mistral 3 LLM family for edge devices and local hardware, the company returned today to debut Devstral 2.The release includes a new pair of models optimized for software engineering tasks — again, with one small enough to run on a single laptop, offline and privately — alongside Mistral Vibe, a command-line interface (CLI) agent designed to allow developers to call the models up directly within their terminal environments. The models are…
