Needle2 vs Papercrane

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.

Every analytics vendor is bolting an AI copilot onto their dashboards. Power BI has one. Tableau has one.

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.

About Papercrane

Every analytics vendor is bolting an AI copilot onto their dashboards. Power BI has one. Tableau has one. They all work the same way: the human drives the old tool, and the AI sits in a sidebar making suggestions. I took the agent you already use and built the BI tool around it. papercrane-cli is a command line tool that gives Claude Code everything it needs to turn a business question into a live dashboard: authenticated access to your data, a real dashboard workspace, and a path to a link you can send to anyone.