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cactus-compute/cactus

Quantization, kernels, runtime and inference engine for mobiles, wearables, smart home and robots.

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How fast cactus-compute/cactus is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 6 – Nov 5, 2026

Stars +193 in 61 days

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Forks +29 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 3 in 61 days

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Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
DayStars gainedForks gainedMerged PRs
Sun, Sep 6, 2026+2+10
Mon, Sep 7, 2026+1+00
Tue, Sep 8, 2026+1+01
Wed, Sep 9, 2026+2+00
Thu, Sep 10, 2026+6+00
Fri, Sep 11, 2026+2+00
Sat, Sep 12, 2026+5+00
Sun, Sep 13, 2026+4+00
Mon, Sep 14, 2026+5+10
Tue, Sep 15, 2026+2+00
Wed, Sep 16, 2026+0+00
Thu, Sep 17, 2026+3+00
Fri, Sep 18, 2026+8+00
Sat, Sep 19, 2026+5+40
Sun, Sep 20, 2026+7+10
Mon, Sep 21, 2026+2+10
Tue, Sep 22, 2026+6+00
Wed, Sep 23, 2026+5+10
Thu, Sep 24, 2026+3+10
Fri, Sep 25, 2026+6+31
Sat, Sep 26, 2026+6+11
Sun, Sep 27, 2026+8+10
Mon, Sep 28, 2026+1+00
Tue, Sep 29, 2026+4+10
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+1+00
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+2+00
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+1+00
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+7+00
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+4+10
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+4+20
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+6+10
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+2+00
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+3+10
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+0+00
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+3+20
Sun, Oct 11, 2026+5+00
Mon, Oct 12, 2026+0+00
Tue, Oct 13, 2026+5+10
Wed, Oct 14, 2026+2+00
Thu, Oct 15, 2026+1+20
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+1+00
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+0+00
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+1+10
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+3+10
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+8+00
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+9+00
Thu, Oct 22, 2026+0+00
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+3+00
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+3+00
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+4+00
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+3+00
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+1+00
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+3+00
Thu, Oct 29, 2026+1+00
Fri, Oct 30, 2026+4+00
Sat, Oct 31, 2026+1+10
Sun, Nov 1, 2026+1+00
Mon, Nov 2, 2026+1+00
Tue, Nov 3, 2026+0+00
Wed, Nov 4, 2026+4+00
Thu, Nov 5, 2026+2+00
Total+193+293
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    Where the repository ranked on GitHub Trending, one dot for each day it was on a list

    Feb 21 – Jun 4, 2026#1 on 4 days

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    1. Jul 281 post

      • Running multimodal AI on phones usually means stitching together model conversion, quantization, native runtimes, and app bindings. Cactus puts those pieces in one stack. Cactus is a hybrid…

        Read full on X, posted by @DanKornas

        @DanKornas · x.com

    2. 2 months earlier
    3. Jun 32 posts

      • Everyone is talking about AI agents. Almost nobody is talking about where they'll run. That's the real bottleneck. "Cactus" is building an open-source cloud designed specifically for AI agents,…

        Read full on X, posted by @RoyAmal

        @RoyAmal · x.com

      • Low-latency AI engine optimized for ARM CPUs and wearables

        Read full on X, posted by @tom_doerr

        @tom_doerr · x.com

    4. 22 days earlier
    5. May 122 posts

      • Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

        Read full on Hacker News

        Hacker News

      • Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling Into a 26M Model

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