# Needle2: A 14MB Agentic LLM for Phones, Wearables, Smart Home, and Robots

A developer released Needle2, a 14MB large language model built for on-device agentic tasks on phones, wearables, smart home devices, and robots. The model targets resource-constrained hardware, potentially enabling AI agents without cloud dependence. This could accelerate edge AI adoption across consumer and industrial applications.

**Importance:** 3/5

## Sources

### Technology
- [Hacker News](https://cactuscompute.com/needle) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:22:07 +0000