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Mistral Codestral 2 Released

Date: June 20, 2025
Company: Mistral AI
Category: Models & Research

Narrative

Specialized coding model. 32K context. Fill-in-middle support. 85+ programming languages. €1/M tokens.

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Reality

Benchmarks competitive: 92.8% HumanEval, 89.3% MBPP. Fill-in-middle excellent for IDE integration. Pricing extremely aggressive. European developers adopted rapidly.

Implication

Established specialized model viability. Coding became commoditized. European sovereignty angle resonated. Price pressure on OpenAI Codex intensified.

Tags

  • mistral
  • model-release
  • coding
  • european-ai