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Reddit r/LocalLLaMASeptember 17, 2026

Cactus Needle 3: A Sliceable 8-29MB Automation Foundation Model That Matches DeepSeek v4 Flash

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Hey all, Henry from Cactus Compute here, I kinda wanted to share our latest model and get feedback from the family :) Needle 3 is a small foundation model for automation: you give it the functions your app exposes, it reads a request and returns the calls with every argument filled in, or a typed record if what you gave it was a schema. It runs on the device, with no network in the loop. It is on Hugging Face , on GitHub , on PyPI as cactus-needle , and there is a sandbox that runs it in your br