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Cactus Releases Whistle: A 16.9MB Speech-to-Text ModelCactus Compute released Whistle, an open-weights ASR model with 55M params (36M active) that compresses to a 16.9MB CQ2bit file and supports seven languages across 17 platforms. It scores 4.31 WER on LibriSpeech test-clean versus 4.9 for Whisper base at 145.3MB, targeting budget phones and wearables.
Cactus releases Needle 3 automation modelCactus Compute open-sourced Needle 3, a 121M-parameter automation foundation model that runs offline on-device. Trained on 360B tokens, it uses a Simple Attention / Hadamard MLP design with 70.8M parameters stored as engrams, reducing compute to ~100 MFLOPs/token. On Mobile Actions it scores 86.0, outperforming much larger models, and is available on Hugging Face, GitHub, PyPI, plus a browser sandbox.
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