Mistral Medium 3.5
128B open-weight model with async remote coding agents and 256k context
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Mistral Medium 3.5 is a 128B dense model with a 256k context window, scoring 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified and 91.4 on τ³-Telecom. It's released with open weights under a modified MIT license — one of the strongest coding-capable open-weight releases this year. Priced at $1.50/M input and $7.50/M output via API, it's positioned as a cost-competitive alternative to proprietary frontier models for agentic and software engineering tasks. Alongside the model, Mistral is launching Vibe — a remote coding agent system that runs sessions in the cloud. Developers can start a task from the CLI or Le Chat, "teleport" their local session to the cloud (preserving history and approval state), and let it run asynchronously while they work on something else. Sessions run in isolated sandboxes and can automatically open pull requests on GitHub when complete. This competes directly with Devin, GitHub Copilot Workspace, and similar async coding agents. The Le Chat Work Mode adds a general-purpose agentic layer on top: multi-step workflows across email, calendar, and messaging, research synthesis from internal and external sources, and inbox triage with drafted replies. All actions are transparent and require explicit approval before anything sensitive executes. The combination of open weights, competitive pricing, and production-ready remote agents makes this one of Mistral's most significant releases since Mixtral.
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Mistral Medium 3.5 verdict: SHIP 🚀 3 ships · 1 skip from the expert panel Full review: shiporskip.io/tool/mistral-medium-35-128b-vibe-remote-agents-open-weight-2026
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“Open weights at 77.6% SWE-Bench with cloud-native async agents is a compelling combo. The 'teleport local session to cloud' UX for Vibe is genuinely clever — it solves the context-loss problem when shifting from local to remote execution.”
“77.6% on SWE-Bench is strong but still behind Claude Sonnet and GPT-5.5 on the same benchmark. The Vibe agent is in 'public preview' which typically means rough edges. Wait for v1.0 before betting a production workflow on it.”
“Open-weight models with integrated remote agent infrastructure is the architecture that democratizes agentic AI. Any developer can self-host the weights and build their own agent backend — no vendor lock-in required.”
“The Le Chat Work Mode covering email, calendar, and research synthesis is exactly what knowledge workers need. Mistral's approval-first approach to sensitive actions is the right balance between automation and human oversight.”