Dossier
Cactus
Coverage of Cactus in the Nexus archive.
- TribCast: Where have all the school kids gone?
TribCast discusses the decline in school attendance, using Cactus Elementary School as a reference point. The article examines where student populations have gone and the implications for schools.
- Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Cactus open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter model for tool calling on consumer devices, which achieves high performance and efficiency. The model was trained on 200B tokens and can be fine-tuned on Mac/PC. Needle outperforms other models in single-shot function calling.