Cactus Compute releases Needle 2, a 14MB agentic LLM for edge devices
Needle 2 is a 45M-parameter model that runs in 28MB of RAM and achieves 500 tokens/sec on a Raspberry Pi 5. It uses CQ2-bit compression for tool calling and structured extraction on low-power hardware like microcontrollers and sub-$200 phones.
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