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Mistral AI launches Devstral, powerful new open source SWE agent model that runs on laptops

May 22, 2025
Well-funded French AI model maker Mistral has consistently punched above its weight since its debut of its own powerful open source foundation model in fall 2023 — but it took some criticism among developers on X recently fmior its last release of a proprietary large language model (LLM) called Medium 3, which some viewed as betraying its open source roots and commitment. (Recall that open…
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Google’s Jules aims to out-code Codex in battle for the AI developer stack

May 21, 2025
Vibe coding and the growth of AI-powered coding platforms gave rise to yet another battleground among tech companies. Codex was also behind one of the first code completion assistants, GitHub Copilot. GitHub announced at Microsoft Build this week a GitHub Copilot Agent, doing much of the same asynchronous work as Codex and Jules. In December, Google released Jules, an autonomous coding agent that…
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Is your AI app pissing off users or going off-script? Raindrop emerges with AI-native observability platform to monitor performance

May 20, 2025
As enterprises increasingly look to build and deploy generative AI-powered applications and services for internal or external use (employees or customers), one of the toughest questions they face is understanding exactly how well these AI tools are performing out in the wild. In fact, a recent survey by consulting firm McKinsey and Company found that only 27% of 830 respondents said that their…
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Adopting agentic AI? Build AI fluency, redesign workflows, don’t neglect supervision

May 19, 2025
The work ecosystem as we know it is about to change, with agents — the “next frontier of generative AI” — set to augment human decision-making for good. At the beginning of the year, the BCG AI Radar global survey said two-thirds of companies are already exploring AI agents. We’re approaching a new norm where AI systems can process our natural-language prompts and autonomously make…
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