Cactus Compute
Cactus Compute is It runs on mobiles, wearables, smart home devices, small robots and microcontrollers, with prebuilt engines for macOS, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, watchOS, tv. It is ranked #20 on the Dev Radar, in Other, first seen 1 days ago and shared in 4 posts (447k views).
What Cactus Compute says about itself
A foundation model for mobile, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. One 8-29 MB binary that beats models 10x its size on mobile tool calls and matches 2-3x bigger models on extraction.
What people said about Cactus Compute on X
We release Needle 3: A Sliceable 8-29MB automation foundation model that can match DeepSeek V4 Flash. One set of weights, every depth from 2 to 20 layers a model of its own, 25-121M parameters at CQ2-bit, built on our Simple Attention Networks and running locally at up to 4k tokens/sec decode speed on a Raspberry Pi…
— @cactuscompute, 1 days ago · 2.8k likes · see the post
Who need words any more Words are just human kludge AI don’t need no words
— @EMostaque, 1 days ago · 472 likes · see the post
I've been pondering trying this out as a tool-call proxy in my local AI stack model server to improve performance. The model needs to work with a merged set of agent harness and system-level tools, potentially needing to write PTC tool calling. This could be _very_ interesting there.
— @mmastrac, 16 h ago · 11 likes · see the post
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Cactus Compute in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #20 of 1225
- Shared in 4 posts by 4 accounts: @cactuscompute, @EMostaque, @mmastrac, @m0d8ye
- 447k views on those posts
- First seen 1 days ago, last shared 16 h ago
- Pricing seen by Jev: not stated
- Market: Other
FAQ
What is Cactus Compute?
It runs on mobiles, wearables, smart home devices, small robots and microcontrollers, with prebuilt engines for macOS, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, watchOS, tv It was first shared on X 1 days ago and is ranked #20 on the Dev Radar.
Is Cactus Compute free?
Pricing is not stated on the page we read.
Who shared Cactus Compute?
4 accounts on X, including @cactuscompute, @EMostaque, @mmastrac, in 4 posts totalling 447k views.
Every post is read and classified by Jev (TypeSafe): what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 11.2k posts from 4.9k X accounts over the last 21 days, 1.2k tools, 12 markets. Collected every 5 minutes, fully re-ranked every hour — last update 2026-09-19 16:08 UTC. Full method.