Tag: Simple Attention Networks

  • Cactus Needle 3: One Set of Weights, an 8-29 MB Model at Any Depth

    Cactus Needle 3: One Set of Weights, an 8-29 MB Model at Any Depth

    Cactus Compute shipped Needle 3 on September 17, 2026, a single set of weights that runs as anything from a 29-million-parameter, 8 MB model to a 121-million-parameter, 29 MB one, depending on how many layers you deploy. It is not a chat model. Needle 3 does three things — tool calling, structured extraction, and text embedding — […]