0.8B HaloGuard 2.0 Tops Open-Source Streaming Safety Guardrails

The open-source HaloGuard 2.0, at just 0.8B parameters, sets a new SOTA for streaming safety guardrails, intercepting unsafe content token-by-token and beating models 5-10x its size across all benchmarks.

2026-11-05 ~ 2026-11-05 · 2 related posts

• HaloGuard 2.0, a 0.8B guard model on Bittensor, claims SOTA over Qwen3Guard and big-lab models — markjeffrey · 2026-11-05
• 0.8B open-source HaloGuard 2.0 claims streaming-guard SOTA, beating models 5-10x its size — const_reborn · 2026-11-05