Model
Inference & ServingCoding
Codestral
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the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Mistral AI released Codestral as its first code-specialized language model.
W2
What
A 22-billion-parameter model trained on over 80 programming languages for code completion and generation.
W3
Where
Distributed on Hugging Face and Mistral's API and model hub.
W4
When
Codestral was released in May 2024.
W5
Why
It targeted developer tooling and IDE integrations, competing with Code Llama and StarCoder.
W6
With
Runs via Mistral's inference stack, vLLM, or transformers, supporting fill-in-the-middle completion.
W7
Watch
Released by Mistral AI under the Mistral AI Non-Production License, restricting commercial production use without a separate license.
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