Mistral's Codestral is described as 'open' but the license restricts commercial activities, including internal use by employees for business activities, possibly due to training partly on copyrighted content.
While Codestral can complete coding functions, write tests, interact with code, and answer codebase questions in English, its large 22GB size demands a high-performance PC to run effectively and only slightly outperforms Meta's Llama 3 model on coding benchmarks.
Despite limitations, generative AI tools like Codestral are being adopted by developers, with 44% currently leveraging such tools and 26% planning to do so soon, although these tools are acknowledged to possess evident shortcomings.
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