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  1. Open sourceReach 48

    Cactus packs a full speech-to-text model into just 16.9 MB

    Cactus Compute just released Whistle, a tiny speech recognition model that fits into a single 16.9 MB file. It runs entirely on the CPU with zero dependencies, delivers transcription and word-level timestamps across seven languages, and beats the 145 MB Whisper base model on several standard benchmarks.

  2. Open sourceReach 48

    Cactus Needle 2 fits an offline AI model into just 28MB of RAM

    Cactus just rolled out Needle 2, an ultra-tiny 45M-parameter model that packs into a 14MB binary and uses only 28MB of RAM. Built for micro-devices like the Raspberry Pi 5 and sub-$200 phones, it clocks hundreds of tokens per second for local tool calling without needing a GPU.