needle
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A foundation model for mobile, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. One 8-29 MB binary that beats models 10x its size on mobile tool calls and matches 2-3x bigger models on extraction.
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Cactus Compute's Needle 2 model runs entirely offline on Raspberry Pi 5's CPU alone, turning plain English into local Python actions.