A French AI startup has released its own vibe coding tool, Mistral Code, to compete with established players like Windsurf, Cursor by Anysphere, and GitHub Copilot.
A French AI startup has released its own vibe coding tool, Mistral Code, to compete with established players like Windsurf, Cursor by Anysphere, and GitHub Copilot.
Mistral Code is an AI-powered programming assistant that combines Mistral models, an in-IDE assistant, local deployment options, and enterprise tools into a single package. A closed beta version is available starting Wednesday for the JetBrains and Microsoft VS Code development platforms, TechCrunch reports .
The assistant is powered by a combination of proprietary models, including Codestral (for code autocompletion), Codestral Embed (for code search and retrieval), Devstral (for “agent” coding tasks), and Mistral Medium (for chat assistance). The tool supports over 80 programming languages and a number of third-party plugins, and can reason about things like files, terminal output, and issues.
“Our goal with Mistral Code is simple: to provide enterprise developers with best-in-class coding models that allow them to do everything from instant completion to multi-stage refactoring with an integrated platform that can be deployed in the cloud, on dedicated capacity, or on premium air-gapped GPUs,” the company says.
Among the startup's clients already using Mistral Code are consulting firm Capgemini, Spanish-Portuguese bank Abanca, and French national railway company SNCF.
