Show HN: Adding Mistral Codestral and GPT-4o to Jupyter Notebooks

There are many other Jupyter notebooks with extensive AI integration. These are less (or not at all) open source, but more mature in some ways, having been iterated on for over a year:

- https://noteable.io/ -- pretty good, but then they got acquirehired out of existence

- https://deepnote.com -- also extensive AI integration and realtime collaboration

- https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-ai -- a very nice standard open source extension for gen AI in Jupyter, from an Amazon. JupyterLab of course also has fairly mature realtime collaboration now.

- https://colab.google/ -- has great AI integration but of course only with Google-hosted models

- https://cocalc.com -- very extensive AI integration everywhere with all the main hosted models, mostly free or pay as you go; also has realtime collaboration. (Disclaimer: I co-authored this.)

- VS Code has a great builtin Jupyter notebook, as other people have mentioned.

Am I missing any?

This is a great implementation by your team + contributors. Simple but effective. And nice to see you’ve kept it open source instead of some other Show HN submissions where they take open source work, make is closed, change a few things, and claim they’ve created something great.

Im curious to see if you continue building out some other features. While these are great features (copilot, chat, etc), I’d think most users would expect their IDE to have it out of the box (or with an extension) these days

Ramon here, the other cofounder of Pretzel! Quick update: Based on some early feedback, we're already working on adding support for local LLMs and Claude Sonnet 3.5. Happy to answer any questions!

Github Copilot is the most useful tool I've found in a long time and having that in Jupyter Notebooks is just awesome. I've been missing that for quite some time. Great work guys!

Curious about the limitations that made you fork it instead of making an extension.

> GitHub Copilot still isn’t supported in Jupyter

What do you mean by this? I've been using Copilot in VS Code .ipynb files for over a year now.

These editors all focus on programming, does anybody have a recommendation for more general note-taking?

I'd like to do things like organizing very rough notes, having them reformatted according to a general template, apply changes according to a prompt, maybe ask questions that refer to a collection of notes, ...

I don't really get the appeal of this, I'd just use vscode with Jupyter if I really wanted "ai" integration since I can then access the whole ecosystem of extensions. The idea isn't that bad, but it lacks purpose.

your work is basically a Jupyter extension (https://github.com/pretzelai/pretzelai/tree/main/packages/pr...). Why don't just create an extension like others in here (https://github.com/jupyterlab-contrib) instead of hard forking JupyterLab?

At this point I'm almost afraid to ask but my attempts to figure it out have failed. What is a Jupyter notebook? Where is the code running? On your computer? On someone elses computer?

I just use PyCharm and Copilot plugin. Works like a charm.

Have y'all seen Jupyter AI? Seems to do the same but better (more features, more mature codebase, better UI/UX/DX) while being a JupyterLab extension https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-ai

Codeium(https://codeium.com/) already supports this, along with VSCode jupyter notebook extensions. It has 400k downloads on the VSCode extension store. don't really see the point of this when codeium already exists..

Curious on why you went with Codestral for autocomplete, does it outperform other local models? How is the performance compared to GPT or Claude for autocomplete?

Any plans to finetune Codestral for this specific usecase?

Have you seen Livebook? Best Jupyter Notebook ever!! https://livebook.dev/

I installed it into my jupyter env and it runs fine on port 8889, but the default port 8888, it just sits waiting on the AI to generate a response.

Are there technical reasons for the fork or could Pretzel have been implemented as a set of extensions?

Are the file formats the same? Are there any Pretzel-specific extensions?

seems like the problem I am experiencing right now is that I'm overwhelmed by the sheer number of tools and choices its frankly exhausting

there is a feeling that i can do anything and everything with AI but in reality I can't do anything because i can't prioritize and choose anymore due to choice fatigue