Watch the video I made of my first short look HERE
Mistral has updated their LLM chat interface called Le Chat, which I understand is French for The Cat.
Anyway, it is a chat interface to their generative artificial intelligence model, much like OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Anthropic's Claude. You can read more about the new capabilities of Le Chat HERE.
All you need is a free account (for now). I do a quick first test of Le Chat to look at how it produces simple Python code. Le Chat does not allow for the upload of a spreadsheet file, so instead, I tried to use it to solve a simple system of two linear equations in two unknown.
I do stress test the chat interface a bit by using LaTeX in my prompts and I also get it to use the symbolic Python package, sympy. A package that I absolutely love, but is not that commonly used in the broader context of Python use-cases.
I copy and paste the code into Visual Studio Code (after having set up a virtual Python environment in which I installed numpy, matplotlib, and sympy beforehand).
Le Chat did a good job in this small first test. It generated the two lines in the plane using matplotlib to show the unique solution (at the intersection of the lines). It generated the augmented matrix as I instructed, but then solved the system of linear equations using the solve method in sympy. After instructing Le Chat to rather calculate the reduced row-echelon form of the matrix using the sympy rref method, it did indeed that.
Check out the new Le Chat for yourself HERE or watch the short video I made of my first test below.
