Needle

Released
2026-05-12
Last refreshed
2026-09-17
Status
Researched 45d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedAgentsJSON / Tool useAgents

Needle is available now for agents and json / tool use with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

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Specifications
Family
Needle
Released
2026-05-12
Parameters
26M
Architecture
Encoder-Decoder
Specialization
on-device
Openness
Open source
License
MITOSI-approvedPermitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Training
Pretrained
Created by
Cactus Compute

Cactus Compute, Inc. builds automation foundation models for tiny devices (mobiles, wearables, smart home, robots, micro

Website
Pricing

No tracked provider pricing is available yet.

Links
Website HuggingFace

About

Original Needle (catalog slug needle-1) is Cactus Compute's first open ~26M-parameter function-calling model (first-party blog 2026-05-12 + HF Cactus-Compute/needle). Distilled Gemini tool-calling into a Simple Attention Network for consumer devices. License note: May 2026 blog states Apache 2.0; HF cardData/tags currently license:mit and no LICENSE sibling file License: HF cardData/tags mit (no LICENSE blob in tree); May 2026 product blog also stated Apache 2.0

Providers

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Capabilities

JSON / Tool useFine-tuning

Benchmark peer barsfor Agents

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Migration checks

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API versions

needleneedle-1