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cactus-compute/needle

Automation foundation model for tiny devices: 2-bit, 8-29 MB, tool calls, ASR, structured extraction and embeddings on phones, wearables, smart homes, robots, cars and microcontrollers.

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    • GitHub trending history

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    Aug 12 – Sep 20, 2026Best #2

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    1. Oct 131 post

      • 刷到个开源小工具 Whistle，轻得过分：命令行语音转文字，安装包才 16.9MB。塞进脚本或 Python 里实时转写，大音频也顺，做会议纪要、播客转文字很适合。还没装，mark 一下。

        Read full on X, posted by @ItsPipiYa

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    3. Oct 31 post

      • Speech to text in one 16.9 MB file, on the CPU. Cactus's Whistle is Apache-2.0 on pip today, in Needle's engine — audio straight to tool calls in one binary. Vendor bench on an M4 Pro: 11.1 ms first…

        Read full on X, posted by @jimmy_longbow_

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    4. Sep 272 posts

      • A startup harvested my email from GitHub and registered me for its Zoom webinar. Contributors, check your email settings.

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      • A startup registered me for its Zoom webinar with an email address it most likely scraped from my GitHub profile. When I opened an issue, they closed it, blocked me, and deleted my follow-up.

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    5. Sep 261 post2 posts

      • 有人把 Gemini 的工具调用能力蒸馏进一个 26M 的模型。2 bit 量化之后体积 8 到 29MB，能跑在手机、可穿戴、机器人、汽车和单片机上。

        Read full on X, posted by @aigeeknews

        @aigeeknews · x.com

      • 一个给微型设备做的自动化基础模型，量化到 2 bit，体积 8 到 29MB。能做工具调用、结构化抽取和向量嵌入，目标是手机、可穿戴、智能家居、机器人、汽车和单片机。

        Read full on X, posted by @aigeeknews

        @aigeeknews · x.com

    6. Sep 222 posts

      • Cuatro piezas para quien ya vive con agentes en paralelo: el candado que autoriza sus acciones, un frontier de coding a precio congelado, un modelo de bolsillo y el mando a distancia para aprobarlos.…

        Read full on X, posted by @dorlando1997

        @dorlando1997 · x.com

      • 先纠正一个误会：这不是拿来聊天的对话模型，是专为小型设备做的动作模型。 Needle 2（4500万参数）把全部权重压进一个14MB的二进制文件，离线也能跑——给一句话，直接吐出带置信度的JSON工具调用。 体积比同类小模型小5到70倍，目前已经拿到9700 stars，确实厉害👍。 🔗

        Read full on X, posted by @wangxiaoxin88

        @wangxiaoxin88 · x.com

    7. Sep 211 post

      • 推荐一个开源项目：needle 以前端侧 AI 卡在两件事：模型太大、没有 function call 能力。 Needle 同时解决了这两个问题。26M 参数，Gemini 3.1 蒸馏，本地可 finetune，速度 6000 toks/sec prefill。MIT，权重全开。

        Read full on X, posted by @wztlink1013

        @wztlink1013 · x.com

    8. Sep 201 post

      • Tiny devices don't get a 70B cloud hop. 11,676★ · +234 today · #14 GitHub Trending (daily). needle: 8–29 MB automation models — tool calls, JSON extract, embeddings on wearables/robots/MCUs. Shop…

        Read full on X, posted by @iasg1004

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