Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session in 28MB of RAM

Cactus Compute has released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The entire model ships as a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in about 28MB of RAM. Weights are trained and deployed at CQ2-bit using Cactus Quants, and the model is sealed inside the company’s…

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Create a Reasoning-Focused LLM: A Practical Guide to Streaming, Curating, and Fine-Tuning the SupraLabs Reasoning Corpus

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end workflow for working with the SupraLabs reasoning corpus. We stream a representative subset directly from the Hugging Face Hub, inspect its source distribution, token-length patterns, task composition, and reasoning-to-answer ratios, and then apply a series of quality filters to remove unsuitable training examples. We transform the retained samples…

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