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Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash

236 points · 93 comments · HenryNdubuaku

  1. hirako2000 · · focus · HN ↗
    My thought, the growing number of dubious claims that a tiny model beats LLMs will make any useful innovation be overlooked.

    What's more important than the resource requirements is to highlight what the model simply cannot even attempt to do that general LLMs do decently well.

    In other words, tell me the anti use case clearly so that I don't have to find out myself.

    1. HenryNdubuaku · · focus · HN ↗
      Strong point! Needle is a task-specific model and bullet 6 stressed that it is only trained to be good on a set of narrow tasks, but I guess it could be clearer?
      1. owebmaster · · focus · HN ↗
        It would be clearer if you didn't use AI to reply.
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