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Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B open multimodal safety classifier

Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B open multimodal safety classifier

Mistral AI released Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter multimodal safety classifier under Apache 2.0 that it says matches text-safety performance of models up to about 7x larger. The lightweight open-weight filter is aimed at adding safety checks without the cost of much larger guardrail models.

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Original reporting: Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 (Mistral AI Blog)