Needle 2
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.
Specs
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