Cactus releases Needle 2, a 14MB agentic LLM for edge devices
Needle 2 is a 14MB model designed for tool calling, structured data extraction, and device control on phones, wearables, and microcontrollers. It serves as an update to the original Cactus Needle model, incorporating community feedback for improved performance on small-scale hardware.
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