# Needle 3

> Needle 3 is Cactus Compute’s on-device “automation foundation model”: a laddered / sliceable tiny model (post: 8–29 MB CQ2-bit binary; 25–121M params; depths 2–20 layers from one weight set) built on their Simple Attention Networks, aimed at tool calls, structured extraction, and local text embeddings — not open-ended chat.

- Slug: needle-3
- Record: cmp_needle-3
- Kind: model
- Functions: embed, extract
- Score: 3
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