Cactus Compute

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September 21, 2026
model release

Cactus Compute Releases Needle 3, a Sub-30MB On-Device Model for Tool Calling and Extraction

Cactus Compute has released Needle 3, a foundation model compressed to 8-29 MB that runs entirely on-device for tool calling, structured data extraction, and text embedding. The company claims it beats models 10x its size on mobile tool calls while running on hardware as small as microcontrollers.