Cactus-Compute

Jocoletter

Open Tool-Calling Models and Dev Tool Shifts #19

Today's Letter 1. Needle, 26M tool-calling model released on Hugging Face 2. Cactus Compute releases 26M-parameter Needle Needle, 26M tool-calling model released on Hugging Face * Cactus Compute released Needle, a 26M-parameter open model for tool calling, with weights and dataset generation details published on Hugging Face. * The model

Jocoletter

Small models and AI interface updates #18

Today's Letter 1. Needle, 26M tool-calling model released 2. Google DeepMind outlines AI pointer principles Needle, 26M tool-calling model released * cactus-compute released Needle, a 26M-parameter function-calling model positioned for very small devices. * The project says Needle was distilled from Gemini 3.1 into a Simple Attention Network architecture.