Bacon vs Needle2

Bacon is an ad network for AI coding tools. Install the plugin, see occasional clearly-labeled ads in your terminal, and earn a share of the revenue your attention makes....

An open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. Needle 2 runs as a 14 MB binary in 28 MB of session RAM.

About Bacon

Bacon is an ad network for AI coding tools. Install the plugin, see occasional clearly-labeled ads in your terminal, and earn a share of the revenue your attention makes. It's free, opt-in, and your prompt never leaves your machine, only a coarse intent signal does. > how do i add auth to this next.js app without rolling my own? Bacon just lets a few of them earn, and you decide how few. It's found money for work you were doing anyway, not a paycheck.

About Needle2

An open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. Needle 2 runs as a 14 MB binary in 28 MB of session RAM. Needle 2 is measured end-to-end through the shipped binary at CQ2-bit deployment precision with tool retrieval on; baselines run the released checkpoints under vLLM, and Apple FM runs on-device. Bringing On-Device AI to <$200 Devices : Edge AI has lately meant Macs and PCs, but the true edge is mostly cheap hardware: there are more than 21 billion IoT devices against roughly 1.5 billion PCs.