Shieldstral is a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that uses policy-adaptive question-answering for content moderation across text and images.
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Shieldstral is a multimodal safety classifier tool developed by Mistral AI that enables developers, operators, and AI product teams to implement flexible, policy-adaptive content moderation. It evaluates text, images, or combinations of both to determine content compliance with user-defined rules, returning a calibrated safety score rather than lengthy explanations.
features
Shieldstral provides a robust set of features for content moderation, emphasizing adaptability and efficiency for AI applications.
use cases
Shieldstral is designed for various stakeholders involved in AI development and deployment, particularly those requiring flexible and efficient content moderation.
how to use
Shieldstral is an open-weight model, allowing developers to download and integrate it directly into their AI workflows for content moderation.
pricing
Shieldstral is released as an open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, making it available for both commercial and non-commercial use without a direct license fee. Users who self-host the model will incur costs related to GPU capacity and operational expenses. Mistral AI has not announced a specific hosted API rate for Shieldstral.
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