cactus
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Energy-efficient AI inference engine for running LLMs, vision models, and speech models on phones, wearables, Macs, and ARM devices like Raspberry Pi. Built by Cactus Compute, Inc. (YC S25). Cactus…
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3 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 3,225 llms.txt files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Who's talking about cactus-compute/cactus
- A Hacker News story“Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones”Hacker News · Jul 10, 2025 · 231 points
- A Hacker News story“Launch HN: Cactus (YC S25) – AI inference on smartphones”Hacker News · Sep 18, 2025 · 123 points
- @ericmigi.com“Software improvements All open source, of course! github.com/coredevices/... - We added fully encrypted …”Bluesky · Apr 23, 2026 · 8 likes
- @matsuu.bsky.social“スマートフォンでローカルLLMを動作させるためのフレームワーク。iOSとAndroidどちらにも対応しておりスマホアプリに組み込むことができると。”Bluesky · Jul 21, 2025 · 5 likes
- @rshemet.bsky.social“you can run transcription on-device with Cactus: github.com/cactus-compu...”Bluesky · Jul 4, 2025 · 2 likes
The biggest 5 of 23 mentions linking to the repository that our crawl found. Each line is their own headline.
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Talked about on GitHub, Bluesky and Hacker News (23 times).
On GitHub · 14
- Oct 18, 2026Review candidate: github.com/cactus-compute/cactus — reacher-z/Awesome-CUA0 reactions · 1 comment
- Aug 24, 2026Evaluate Cactus's Needle 2 (45M tool-calling model) for on-device tasks — software-mansion-labs/private-mind0 reactions · 1 comment
- Jul 27, 2026Investigate: local tool-selection router (Needle 26M) to offload tool-calling from the LLM — Gilamonster-Foundation/newt-agent0 reactions
- Jul 2, 2026Support cactus engine — ShadAdman/EdgeRt0 reactions
- May 20, 2026feat: Joshua — pure-Rust LLM inference engine (Cactus clone) — rexlunae/joshua0 reactions · 2 comments
9 more on GitHub
- Apr 3, 2026feat: integrate Cactus inference backend — olibartfast/neuriplo0 reactions · 1 comment
- Mar 12, 2026chore: update cactus to v1.11 with timestamp support — fastrepl/anarlog0 reactions · 11 comments
- Mar 2, 2026[ADD] Cactus — PyTorchKR/landscape0 reactions · 3 comments
- Nov 18, 2025Add GitHub repository links for multiple YC open-source companies — yc-oss/open-source-companies0 reactions · 2 comments
- Oct 3, 2025Update local-apps.ts to include Cactus — huggingface/huggingface.js0 reactions
- Sep 21, 2025local llm support — Chevey339/kelivo0 reactions · 1 comment
- Sep 19, 2025HN Top Posts 2025-09-19 — EFLql/hackernews-daily0 reactions · 1 comment
- Jul 12, 2025[News] 投稿 — Yuyz0112/koala-oss-app0 reactions · 2 comments
- May 14, 2025Integrate with the Cactus framework and SmolLM2 — elimu-ai/soga0 reactions · 8 comments
On Bluesky · 7
- Apr 23, 2026Software improvements All open source, of course! github.com/coredevices/... - We added fully encrypted cloud backup (optional) - Local… — @ericmigi.com8 likes and reposts · 1 reply
- Jul 21, 2025スマートフォンでローカルLLMを動作させるためのフレームワーク。iOSとAndroidどちらにも対応しておりスマホアプリに組み込むことができると。 — @matsuu.bsky.social5 likes and reposts
- Jul 4, 2025you can run transcription on-device with Cactus: github.com/cactus-compu... — @rshemet.bsky.social2 likes and reposts
- Aug 15, 2026ahora ando revisando Cactus como alternativa que te permite correr otros modelos cuantizando un monton Cactus hasta tiene uno que se llama… — @rewoke.bsky.social1 likes and repost · 1 reply
- Sep 18, 2025Launch HN: Cactus (YC X25) – AI inference on smartphones L: https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus C:… — @hnws.bsky.social1 likes and repost
2 more on Bluesky
- Jul 3, 2025https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus bmann (/bmann) starred cactus-compute/cactus (/cactus-compute/cactus) · July 3, 2025 13:20… — @bmannconsulting.com1 likes and repost
- May 27, 2025Just came across Cactus — an open-source serverless framework for running AI locally on mobile devices and wearables. Giving it a try soon!… — @elements.red1 likes and repost
On Hacker News · 2
- Jul 10, 2025Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones231 points · 82 comments
- Sep 18, 2025Launch HN: Cactus (YC S25) – AI inference on smartphones123 points · 63 comments
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