Needle 2

Name: Needle 2
Author: Cactus Compute

An open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. Needle 2 runs as a 14 MB binary in 28 MB of session RAM.

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Model

Family: Needle
Variant: 2
Parameters: 45M
Weights: Open
License: Apache-2.0

Limits

Context: 256 tokens

Modalities

Input: Text
Output: Text

Capabilities

Tool calling: Yes

Dates

Released: 11 Aug 2026

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