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Cactus releases Needle 3 automation model
Cactus 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.