4.0
@hn_b9c4d1
about 2 months ago
Devstral¹ has very good models that can be run locally.
They are in the top of open models, and surpass some closed models.
I've been using devstral, codestral and Le Chat exclusively for three months now. All from misteals hosted versions. Agentic, as completion and for day-to-day stuff. It's not perfect, but neither is any other model or product, so good enough for me. Less anecdotal are the various benchmarks that put them surprisingly high in the rankings
¹https://mistral.ai/news/devstral
I like Mistral, it hits the exact sweet spot between cost and my data staying in the EU, withouth a significant drop in quality, but man are their model naming conventions confusing af. They mention they have a model called Devstral 2, which is neither Codestral nor Devestral. I want to use it, but the api only lists devstral-2512, devstral-latest, devstral-medium-latest, devstral-medium-2507, devstral-small, devstral-small-2507.
I think, devstral-latest should be it, no? So I write to support and get an answer 12 hours later that says oh, no, devstral 2 is definetely called devstral 2 and then a page of instructions on how to set it up in Intellij... generated with AI. The screens it is refering to don't exist and never did.
Devstral was trained specifically to follow the "agentic" or "tool use" pattern.
Where it does each step. Read the files, then edit in text editor get it right, then write to the file.
Codestral is pre "agentic" the here's the code you copy and paste it.
Devstral > codestral.