Codestral 22B is a high-performance open-weight large language model developed by Mistral AI, specifically designed for code-related tasks. With 22 billion parameters, it excels at code generation, completion, and understanding across a wide range of programming languages. Built on a decoder-only transformer architecture, it is suitable for research and experimental development in AI-assisted programming.

Features of Codestral 22B:

• 22B-parameter decoder-only transformer model optimized for code tasks.
• Supports 80+ programming languages including Python, JavaScript, C++, Java, and Bash.
• Efficient and accurate code generation and completion capabilities.
• Open-weight model available via Hugging Face with a research-only license.
• Can be run locally using frameworks like Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, or llama.cpp.
• Pretrained on diverse code corpora for high-quality output and syntax awareness.

To check the installed version of Transformers used with Codestral, run:

$ pip show transformers
$ pip show torch 
$ pip show accelerate 
$ pip show huggingface_hub

Disclaimer: Codestral is distributed under a research-only license by Mistral AI. Commercial use is prohibited. It is intended for research, evaluation, and non-commercial experimentation only. Refer to the official Hugging Face page or Mistral AI website for usage guidelines, updates, and licensing terms.