Needle: A 26M Parameter Function Calling Model
Sam Witteveen · youtube · 2026-07-12
The video introduces Cactus's **Needle**, a function-calling model with only **26 million parameters**. The author suggests its unique architecture allows it to outperform many larger models on certain tasks. Resources including the official blog, Hugging Face demo page, and GitHub repository are provided for further exploration of its architecture details and real-world performance.
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