Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
A 14MB agentic LLM optimized for real-time task automation on resource-constrained hardware.
Hey HN,Henry from Cactus here!We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now incorporated the sugg...
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Needle2 demonstrates that specialized, ultra-compact models can outperform massive general-purpose LLMs in function calling and device control by shedding unnecessary world knowledge. This shift toward resource-efficient architectures unlocks sophisticated AI capabilities for billions of low-power IoT devices and entry-level hardware.

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