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French AI startup Mistral has released Codestral 25.01, an updated version of its code generation model. According to Mistral, the new model generates and completes code twice as fast as its predecessor while supporting over 80 programming languages. Benchmarks indicate that Codestral 25.01 outperforms other code models with fewer than 100 billion parameters on fill-in-the-middle tasks. It currently ranks second in LMsys' Copilot Arena, behind Sonnet 3.5 and Deepseek V2.5. Developers can access the model through Mistral AI's IDE partners and the APIs of Mistral, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. For enterprise customers, the startup Continue offers local deployment options. A free trial of Codestral is available in VS Code or JetBrains.

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Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has just released its Grok chatbot as a free iOS app for US users. The app gives people access to xAI's latest language model, Grok 2, and lets them ask questions, create images, and analyze photos they upload. To keep its answers current, Grok pulls information from Twitter and the web. For now, the app is limited to iPhone users in the US. Musk had previously announced that Grok 3 would arrive by the end of 2024, calling it the "the world's most powerful AI by every metric by December," but it hasn't been released. If the rumor mill is right, Grok 3 is currently being tested and could be released in the coming weeks.

Image: xAI via App Store
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