model
Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
Extremely tiny but limited, fits ultra-resource-constrained use cases.
5.5Overall
Utility6
Onboarding5
Craft5
Niche fit7
Longevity4
Five dimensions scored independently; overall is a weighted average. Scores are only comparable within this same rubric.
Good for
Teams that need on‑device LLM inference with severe memory/compute constraints
Not for
Applications requiring high‑fidelity generation or sophisticated reasoning
Project description
cactuscompute.com
Alternatives
Phi-1.5TinyLlamaMistral 7BLLaMA 2 (quantized)