Mistral launches powerful Devstral 2 coding model including open source, laptop-friendly version

French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie developers.

Just days after releasing its powerful open source, general purpose Mistral 3 LLM family for edge devices and local hardware, the company returned today to debut Devstral 2.

The release includes a new pair of models optimized for software engineering tasks — again, with one small enough to run on a single laptop, offline and privately — alongside Mistral Vibe, a command-line interface (CLI) agent designed to allow developers to call the models up directly within their terminal environments.

The models are fast, lean, and open—at least in theory. But the real story lies not just in the benchmarks, but in how Mistral is packaging this capability: one model fully free, another conditionally so, and a terminal interface built ...