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Cactus Compute, Inc.

On-device AI inference engine for smartphones, laptops, and edge hardware with automatic cloud fallback.

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Rising signal56.7
Rising rank#24
Profile completeness57%
Last public activitySep 2, 2026
01

PUBLIC TRACTION

Usage, audience and developer pull

48.1KHF model downloads788.1 per model
417HF followers681 total likes
16.8KGitHub stars1.4K forks
61Model portfolio3 datasets · 0 Spaces

WHY IT IS ON THE RADAR

AI infrastructure picks-and-shovels

  • Shipping now
  • GitHub momentum
  • Multi-modality surface
02

MODEL FOOTPRINT

What it publishes

Language/TextAudio/SpeechMultimodalRetrieval/Embeddings
Most popular HF repositoryCactus-Compute/needle243.7K downloads · 263 likes ↗
Top tasks
text-generation (22), automatic-speech-recognition (10), image-text-to-text (7), feature-extraction (2), voice-activity-detection (2), speaker-recognition (1)
Model sizes
Unknown (57); 3-10B (2); <0.5B (2)
Base families
Gemma, Qwen
Libraries
cactus-needle, jax, mlx
03

DEVELOPER ACTIVITY

How it ships

Original repositories16
Forked repositories4
Pushed in 90 days6
Archived share50%
Most-starred repositorycactus-compute/needle10.1K stars · 655 forks ↗
Languages
Python, C++, TypeScript, Shell, Kotlin, Ruby
Topics
llm, llamacpp, llms, ai, llm-inference, on-device-ai, cactus, android, arm, edge
Latest release
cactus-compute/cactus · Aug 17, 2026
04

ACTIVITY TIMELINE

Latest observed moves

  1. GitHub pushRepository activity ↗
  2. HF modelModel published or updated ↗
  3. GitHub releaseRelease v2.1.0 ↗
  4. HF datasetDataset published or updated ↗
05

THE NEOLAB STACK

Publicly evidenced tooling

Training
MLX
Compute
Not disclosed
Hardware
Not disclosed
Tracking
Not disclosed
Bottlenecks
Not disclosed

“Not disclosed” means no evidence was found in the sampled public metadata or top model card—not that the lab does not use the tool.

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COMPARABLE LABS

Nearest modality peers

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NuMind
Signal 57.1 · 627.8K downloads · 487 stars

INVESTOR DILIGENCE

Validate recurring revenue, workload retention, margins, and differentiation from clouds and open source.

  • HF member count is only a public-profile proxy

MISSING FROM THIS RECORD

foundedYearfoundersOrLeadershipemployeeCountfundingbusinessModelproducts

Completeness: 8 of 14 tracked field groups. Unknowns are explicit so an analyst can close them.

DATA PROVENANCE

Every claim should be auditable.

Platform counters are a point-in-time public snapshot. Editorial facts are only promoted after source review.

Hugging Face organizationObserved 2026-09-03 ↗GitHub organization APIObserved 2026-09-03 ↗

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