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Cactus Compute's Needle 3 claims 8-29MB models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash on downstream tasks after one epoch of fine-tuning.

The company says intelligence laddering yields 2-20 layer subnetworks, suitable for tiny devices.

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Cactus Compute's Needle 3 claims 8-29MB models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash on downstream tasks after one epoch of fine-tuning. The company says intelligence laddering yields 2-20 layer subnetworks, suitable for tiny devices.