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Sub-30MB Foundation Models for Mobile, Wearables, AR glasses, Smart homes, Robotics, Automotive, Laptops, Game consoles, TVs, Microcontrollers

Agents, voice and vision running locally on consumer hardware.

Latest releases

  • Model

    Mirage

    A 22 MB vision model with object detection, OCR, segmentation, decision and embedding.

    Try in-browser790/moHugging Face downloads last month
  • Model

    Whistle

    A 16.9 MB open speech recognition model that supports seven languages and runs on CPU only.

    Try in-browser75.2k/moHugging Face downloads last month
  • Model

    Needle 3

    Our latest Automation Foundation Model. A single 8–29 MB binary that beats models 10× its size on mobile tool calls.

    Try in-browser118k/moHugging Face downloads last month
  • Company

    Pebble partnership

    Cactus now powers on-device intelligence for Pebble watches and rings.

  • Research

    Hybrid routing

    Post-trained models that know when they're wrong and request help from the cloud.

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Demo

Needle, Whistle and Mirage

Try our models directly in your browser: tool calling with Needle 3, speech recognition with Whistle and vision with Mirage.

Sandbox

Capabilities

Big models, small hardware.

Our research that enables models to run on everyday devices, and fall back to the cloud only when needed.

Sub-2-bit quantization

We compress foundation models below two bits per weight with almost no quality loss, so large models fit in the memory of everyday devices.

Weights
< 2 bits
Quality
Near-lossless
Models
Ours + third-party

Microprocessor-tier models

Our smallest models run on budget phones, wearables, and Raspberry Pis. No GPU, no server, and no data leaving the device.

Minimum hardware
CPU-only
Network
Offline + Hybrid

Hybrid routing

Our models report how confident they are with every answer. That score decides whether a request stays on the device or goes to the cloud.

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Trusted by the industry

Pebble

“The Pebble Index Ring has no screen. So when you speak to it, the action just has to happen, every time, with or without internet connection. We run Cactus Needle locally in the app, instead of relying on the cloud. The model's footprint is tiny and the performance never lets us down.”

Eric MigicovskyFounder, Pebble
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