Needle 3
A foundation model for mobile, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. One 8-29 MB binary that beats models 10x its size on mobile tool calls and matches 2-3x bigger models on extraction.
Cactus Compute
Needle 3
Cactus Compute
A 121M-parameter open model for tool calling, structured extraction and text embedding on tiny devices. One set of weights ships as an intelligence ladder: every depth from 2 to 20 layers is a deployable model, an 8-29 MB CQ2-bit binary.
Specs
Model
- Family
- Needle
- Variant
- 3
- Parameters
- 121M
- Weights
- Open
- License
- Apache-2.0
Limits
- Context
- 8,192 tokens
Modalities
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
Capabilities
- Tool calling
- Yes
Dates
- Released
- 16 Sept 2026
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