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Cactus Compute released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter tool-calling model that ships as a 14MB binary and runs a full session in about 28MB of RAM, targeting devices with no GPU or NPU. The model ach…

Cactus Compute, a Y Combinator Summer 2025 startup, released Needle 2, a 14MB language model for tool calling on low-memory devices, capable of running on phones, wearables, home devices, robots, and …

Apple's operating system updates have historically rendered third-party startups obsolete by absorbing their core features, a practice known as "sherlocking" that destroyed companies like Tile, Pebble…