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Needle fits an AI model into an 8–29 MB file and turns everyday requests into app actions.

Needle fits an AI model into an 8–29 MB file and turns everyday requests into app actions. Built by Cactus Compute,…

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Needle fits an AI model into an 8–29 MB file and turns everyday requests into app actions. Built by Cactus Compute, it's designed to run locally on phones, wearables, and other small devices. You give it the functions your app supports. When someone makes a request, Needle picks the matching function and fills in the details. "Set an alarm for 7 tomorrow" could become an alarm action with the time filled in, if your app provides that tool. It can also extract details from invoices, bookings, and other messy text, and create embeddings for local search and matching. Developers can fine-tune

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