Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always…
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