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Shieldstral

Shieldstral is a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier under Apache 2.0 that matches or outperforms open guard models up to 7x its size on text safety, refusal detection, policy adaptability, and multimodal benchmarks. It runs on a single 16GB NVIDIA GPU.

Mistral | In Edition 46, Saturday 8 Aug 2026

SOURCE Mistral, Introducing Shieldstral

Added to The Deploy Log Tuesday 15 Sep 2026, updated Thursday 17 Sep 2026. Read Edition 46, the edition that carried it.

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