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Needle 2: a 14MB model that turns text into actions on a Raspberry Pi 5

On-device & edge
Needle 2, from Cactus Compute, is a 14MB function-calling model that runs on the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU, with no AI HAT: 'turn on the LED' becomes an action in 78 milliseconds. It is not a chatbot: it is trained for one task only, reliable structured on-device actions. Needle 3 is already out.

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