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Enterprise services: If you want to put AI into small devices like smartwatches and home appliances, models of several hundred MB will not fit, while calling APIs online is insecure.

If you want to put AI into small devices like smartwatches and home devices, models that are hundreds of MB won’t fit, while calling online APIs is not secure. The Cactus team’s Needle 2 takes an ultra-small approach, compressing a 45-million-parameter model into a 14MB file that uses only 28MB of memory when running. It focuses on three tasks: understanding instructions to call tools, operating devices, and extracting structured data from a piece of text. Its output is constrained by grammar, so it always returns standard-format data that programs can use directly. Each response also comes with a confidence score: handle the certain ones locally, and pass uncertain ones to a cloud-based large model. The division of labor is well thought out. GitHub: Install it with Python and it’s ready to use; write descriptions for your functions and it knows what

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If you want to put AI into small devices like smartwatches and home devices, models that are hundreds of MB won’t fit, while calling online APIs is not secure. The Cactus team’s Needle 2 takes an ultra-small approach, compressing a 45-million-parameter model into a 14MB file that uses only 28MB of memory when running. It focuses on three tasks: understanding instructions to call tools, operating devices, and extracting structured data from a piece of text. Its output is constrained by grammar, so it always returns standard-format data that programs can use directly. Each response also comes with a confidence score: handle the certain ones locally, and pass uncertain ones to a cloud-based large model. The division of labor is well thought out. GitHub: Install it with Python and it’s ready to use; write descriptions for your functions and it knows what

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