Mistral Launches Shieldstral: A 3B Small Model Runs on a Single 16GB GPU for Multimodal Moderation, Claims to Achieve Open-Source SOTA

Mistral AI released the open-source content moderation model Shieldstral, with 3B parameters, under the Apache 2.0 license, supporting 12 languages and running on a single 16GB GPU. It claims performance comparable to 7 times larger models and achieves SOTA in multimodal moderation, but points out that most protection models have a fixed harm classification system.