Cactus Compute releases Needle 2, a 45M-parameter tool-calling model
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Needle 2 ships as a 14MB binary and runs a full agent session in ~28MB of RAM. It trades wins with FunctionGemma 270M, LFM2.5 230M, and Apple FM at 5 to 70x smaller.
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