Run your first AI agent in Java (opens in new tab)

Every "build an AI agent" tutorial I find assumes two things: you write Python, and you have a paid OpenAI key. I write Java and I didn't want to pay just to experiment. So here's the version nobody writes: a real LLM-backed agent, on the JVM, for free — using Mistral's free tier and AgentFlow4J, an open-source orchestration runtime on top of Spring AI. About ten minutes, start to finish. Step 1 — Create a Mistral account Go to console.mistral.ai and sign up (email, Google, or GitHub). You la...