Tiny ~51M-parameter vision model (22 MB with 2-bit quantization) that detects objects, reads text and understands spatial relations, running in ~0.1 s on a phone. Model and code released.
Mirage
Tiny ~51M-parameter vision model from Cactus Compute for on-device object detection, text reading and spatial understanding.
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Mirage at a glance
- What is Mirage?
- Mirage is a model from Cactus Compute. Tiny ~51M-parameter vision model from Cactus Compute for on-device object detection, text reading and spatial understanding.
- Who makes Mirage?
- Mirage is made by Cactus Compute.
- Does Mirage work in the EU?
- Unverified. No explicit evidence found. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Mirage cost?
- Open source. Model and code reported as released; no pricing information found.
- Where was Mirage shown?
- In 1 creator video by AI Search. Most recently by AI Search on 8 Nov 2026, at 26:32 in “Weight space programming, new 3D models, Gemini Omni 1.2, GPT Image 2.6: AI NEWS”.
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Mirage is a small vision model from Cactus Compute, a company focused on running AI models on phones and other edge devices. According to a creator summary, it has about 51 million parameters and occupies roughly 22 MB when quantized to 2 bits.
It is reported to detect objects, read text in images and understand spatial relations between objects. Reported inference time is around 0.1 seconds on a phone, which targets fully local, on-device use without a cloud round trip.
The model and code are reported as released publicly. The official pages could not be fetched, so the license, exact release date, download locations and benchmark results are unverified here.
- About 51M parameters
- About 22 MB with 2-bit quantization
- Object detection, text reading and spatial relation understanding
- Around 0.1 s inference on a phone
- Model and code reported as released
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