Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
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ShieldGemma 9B

Google's text-policy guard model on Gemma 2.

GoogleGoogleUSA
Google
Levelmodel
Classguard
Parameters9B
Contextnot in the notes
Released2024
Opennessopen weights restricted
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Lineage

finetune
Gemma 2 to ShieldGemma 27B: finetune, medium confidenceGemma 2 to ShieldGemma 2B: finetune, medium confidenceGemma 2 to ShieldGemma 9B: finetune, medium confidenceGemma 2Gemma 2GoogleShieldGemma 9BShieldGemma 9BGoogle, 2024ShieldGemma 27BShieldGemma 27BGoogle, 2024ShieldGemma 2BShieldGemma 2BGoogle, 2024
GoogleGemma 2 is the parent (finetune)medium confidencenotes
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 4 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Guardrails and safety classifiersproduced by

Identity

Developer
Google
Family
not in the notes
Released
2024 sourcesnotes
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
not in the notes
Total parameters
9B sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
text
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights restricted
Licence
Gemma Terms of Use sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
English (unverified)
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. google (Google) huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/google/models?search=shieldgemma

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "ShieldGemma 9B", https://aurion.semai.id/models/google-shieldgemma-9b/, records of October 2026.