Cactus Needle - The 26M Function Calling Model

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In this video, I look at Needle by the company Cactus. This is a 26 million parameter function calling model with a very unique architecture that is outperforming a lot of models much bigger than itself. Blog: https://cactuscompute.com/blog/needle Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/shreyask/needle-playground Github: https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle Twitter: https://x.com/Sam_Witteveen 🕵️ Interested in building LLM Agents? Fill out the form below Building LLM Agents Form: https://drp.li/dIMes 👨‍💻Github: https://github.com/samwit/llm-tutorials ⏱️Time Stamps: 00:00 Intro 01:00 Cactus Needle 01:21 Blog 03:39 Baseline Transformer 04:00 Architecture 05:23 GitHub Repo 07:00 Demo

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