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Mistral released Shieldstral 1.0 as Apache 2.0 open weights on 4 August 2026. On Mistral's own benchmark tables, GPT-OSS-Safeguard-20B leads 9 of 18 text rows to Shieldstral's 4.
Mistral's Agentic Search launch claims a jump from 26.7% to 86% on FinanceBench. The 86% figure belongs to a Z.ai model, and the managed path that delivers it cannot run on Mistral's EU regional endpoint.
Microsoft put Mistral's open-weight Medium 3.5 into Foundry and Azure Local on July 21, 2026, from cloud to fully disconnected. How regulated enterprises should choose a deployment mode, and what control really buys.
