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Cactus Compute's needle is a 14MB foundation model for wearables and smart-home hardware.

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~248 stars today, 3,921 total, MIT (GitHub). The size is the entire argument, at 14MB it fits a class of device where even quantized SLMs are impractical. Last shipped August 11, no formal releases, so treat every capability claim as unbenchmarked until someone independent runs it.

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