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Cactus Releases Compact Sliceable Automation Model

Sep 18, 2026. Covered by 2 outlets.

Cactus Compute released Needle 3, a sliceable 25–121M-parameter model sized 8–29 MB for edge tool selection and typed extraction.

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Cactus Needle 3: A Sliceable 8-29MB Automation Foundation Model That Matches DeepSeek v4 Flashreddit.com, Sep 17

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