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Enterprise software teams needing a tool for semantic code search, retrieval-augmented generation, and code analytics across large-scale codebases
About Codestral Embed
Codestral Embed is Mistral AI's first embedding model, specialized for code, optimized for high-performance code retrieval and semantic understanding. It significantly outperforms leading code embedders in the market today, such as Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0, and OpenAI’s large embedding model. Codestral Embed can output embeddings with different dimensions and precisions; for instance, with a dimension of 256 and int8 precision, it still performs better than any model from competitors. The dimensions of the embeddings are ordered by relevance, allowing users to choose the first n dimensions for a smooth trade-off between quality and cost. It excels in retrieval use cases on real-world code data, particularly in benchmarks like SWE-Bench, which is based on real-world GitHub issues and corresponding fixes, and Text2Code (GitHub), relevant for providing context for code completion or editing.
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Mistral AI
Founded: 2023
United States
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