Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
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#3I'd really like to see more conversation around Mistral's models. It's good to see Europe developing AI.
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#4Mistral needs to abandon their Everything-stral branding. Getting kind of lame.
"Shieldstral" is an awkward and bad name
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#5Mistral needs to abandon their Everything-stral branding. Getting kind of lame. "Shieldstral" is an awkward and bad name
That naming only works if you commit to the bit even when it doesn't make sense. That builds branding.
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#6I'd really like to see more conversation around Mistral's models. It's good to see Europe developing AI.
The problem is that their performance is too far away from the latest generation of Asian models.
They had kept up in the mid-range a few years ago. But this standing is sadly long gone.
If you need a fast Opensource'ed LLMs you can go for EU-hosted DeepSeek or Qwen.
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#7Should've called it Safestral.
Also I do like Mistral's seemingly newer strategy of focusing on smaller, more fine-tuned models for various use-cases, presumably the result of their large MoE models not competing effectively with the frontier models.
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#8Someone should use this to do the exact opposite of the intention: filter for “offensive” content, and boost it or collate it into a newsletter/email blast for people of culture.
You have to give it to Mistral they do at least know what the market near them says they want right now. The great problem is in a few years of this that market won’t be worth anything.
Edit to add, you could also add this to an AI workflow so as to produce content that walks right up to the line but doesn’t trigger it.
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#9I'd really like to see more conversation around Mistral's models. It's good to see Europe developing AI.
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#10Someone should use this to do the exact opposite of the intention: filter for “offensive” content, and boost it or collate it into a newsletter/email blast for people of culture. You have to give it to Mistral they do at least know what the market near them says they want right now. The great problem is in a few years of this that market won’t be worth anything. Edit to add, you could also add this to an AI workflow…
> they do at least know what the market near them says they want right now
It does seem to be a very European approach to AI that their flagship AI lab is just making models that do nothing other than monitor and moderate internet content.
I guess they know that the EU AI Act, Chat Control, etc are going to cause a lot of companies to need this kind of compliance.