French AI startup Mistral AI on Wednesday introduced a new agentic LLM for software engineering tasks.
The startup launched Devstral in partnership with All Hands AI, an agentic AI startup.
Mistral said the new model is designed to solve “real GitHub issues” and runs over code agent scaffolds like OpenHands and SWE-agent.
A scaffold is a temporary structure or workflow that enables developers to achieve a particular goal. The SWE-agent system powers large language models (LLMs) acting as software engineering agents to perform engineering tasks.
The LLM also tackles the problem of contextualizing code within a large codebase and identifying different components and bugs.
Larger context window
What Mistral essentially did with Devstral was enlarge the context…