AdvertiseWatchSubscribe
Updated , rescanned every two hoursThursday, November 5, 2026

▲ 32.8k today14.5k starsPythonHN ×2

30 MB AI brings chat, speech and tool calls to mobiles

AgentsVoiceInference

cactus-compute/cactus: preview

What is cactus?

Cactus ships a single 8-29 MB binary that runs a language model, a speech-to-text model and embeddings on phones, wearables and micro-controllers. It can invoke functions you expose, extract structured data from text, and transcribe audio without sending anything to the cloud.

Who it is for

Developers building offline assistants, smart-home gadgets or robot controllers can add conversational, voice and data-extraction capabilities without the memory or bandwidth hit of larger models.

How to try it

pip install cactus-compute

Get the signal first.

Join the list for the morning email: the day's biggest AI launches, explained in five minutes. Unsubscribe any time.

Prefer a reader? Follow the RSS feed.