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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

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Mistral released Shieldstral, a 3B open-weights safety model that lets developers write plain-language moderation policies at inference time instead of retraining for each new use case. It handles both text and image content, runs on a single 16GB GPU, and outperforms models up to seven times its size across safety benchmarks.

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