Introducing Shieldstral

UpdateAug 4, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.

https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/

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