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Needle2 Packs an Agentic LLM Into 14MB

Cactus Compute's tiny model brings tool and function calling to phones, wearables, and robots.

Jul 29, 2026
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Needle: A 26M-Param Model Built for On-Device Tool Calls

Cactus Compute's tiny encoder-decoder is distilled specifically for function calling at the edge, trading general chat for a narrow, useful job.

Mar 16, 2026
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