INTRODUCING SHIELDSTRAL

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Shieldstral features a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size. It accepts plain-language policies at inference time, unifying text and image safety evaluation without retraining. Shieldstral delivers calibrated safety scores across diverse benchmarks while running efficiently on a single 16GB NVIDIA GPU. It is a step toward moderation that adapts to context instead of forcing every product through one frozen taxonomy.