Cactus Needle 3: A Sliceable 8-29MB Automation Foundation Model That Matches DeepSeek v4 Flash
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Hey all, Henry from Cactus Compute here, I kinda wanted to share our latest model and get feedback from the family :) Needle 3 is a small foundation model for automation: you give it the functions your app exposes, it reads a request and returns the calls with every argument filled in, or a typed r…
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- 2026-09-20 16:05 · r/ClaudeAI
Has anyone actually replaced Claude with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash/Pro for tool-heavy daily work? - 2026-09-20 02:53 · Pandaily
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Ships Causal Encoder–Decoder MoE With 1M Context and Extreme KV Compression - 2026-09-18 16:42 · AlphaSignal
Bolt Adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at 10x Cheaper Than V4 Pro - 2026-09-17 20:05 · r/LocalLLM
Cactus Needle 3: A Sliceable 8-29MB Automation Foundation Model That Matches DeepSeek v4 Flash - 2026-09-17 20:05 · r/LocalLLaMA
Cactus Needle 3: A Sliceable 8-29MB Automation Foundation Model That Matches DeepSeek v4 Flash