Mistral launches AI assistant for JetBrains and VS Code with multi-model support

Mistral has introduced Mistral Code, its new AI-powered coding assistant now in private beta for JetBrains IDEs and Visual Studio Code. As a fork of the open source Continue.dev project, Mistral Code is customized to integrate Mistral’s proprietary models with enterprise-focused enhancements. Entering a space with alternatives like Windsurf Editor, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex, it brings a unified interface for code completion, multi-step refactoring, chat-based assistance, and agentic coding tasks.

Mistral Code supports deployment in public clouds, reserved capacity, or air-gapped on-premise GPUs, addressing enterprise security and scalability. It uses in-house models: Codestral for autocompletion, Codestral Embed for code search, Devstral for agent tasks, and Mistral Medium for chat support.

In addition to core editing features, Mistral Code supports over 80 programming languages and interacts with files, terminal outputs, and bug reports. Enterprise users gain advanced options to fine-tune or post-train models on private codebases and can deploy lightweight distilled variants. An integrated admin console provides seat management, analytics, observability, and granular controls.