Cactus Compute

ActiveAI-native

Tiny Edge AI For Tiny Devices

What it does

On-device AI for phones, wearables, smart home, robots and small robots: - Cactus Needle: 14MB agentic LLM for tiny devices - Cactus Engine: fastest runtime for tiny devices - Cactus Hybrid: post-trained models fall back to cloud

Its site says now · captured 2026-08-23

Cactus - On-device AI for Smartphones, Laptops & Edge

On-device AI with cloud fallback. Cactus post-trains models to know when they are wrong and hand off to frontier cloud models — cutting inference costs up to 5x.

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