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288 points bfirsh | 1 comments | 17 Nov 25 14:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.239s | source
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pm90 ◴[17 Nov 25 16:29 UTC] No.45955122[source]▶
I was wondering if/when cloudflare would jump into doing “more AI”. Of all the paths they could have taken, this seems like a reasonable one. Hope that the dev team made some money/cloudflare stock from this transaction.
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bogwog ◴[17 Nov 25 16:39 UTC] No.45955253[source]▶
> Of all the paths they could have taken

They can't innovate themselves, and rather than try to fix the reasons why (change in leadership, corporate structure, etc), they just buy a competitor, which they will most likely run into the ground. Perfectly reasonable!

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1. pm90 ◴[17 Nov 25 17:40 UTC] No.45955916[source]▶
Their area of expertise is in running large scale infra, which they have innovated a lot to get. They’re acquiring a company that has expertise in an area they're not familiar with, which needs large scale compute infra. It seems like their needs are aligned in this case.