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Replicate is joining Cloudflare

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288 points bfirsh | 1 comments | 17 Nov 25 14:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
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simonw ◴[17 Nov 25 15:15 UTC] No.45954300[source]▶
Congrats Ben and team!

I think this is Cloudflare's most notable acquisition yet? From Wikipedia it looks like they've previously mainly acquired smaller cybersecurity firms like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_1_Security

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michaelbuckbee ◴[17 Nov 25 15:37 UTC] No.45954514[source]▶
This feels the most like Cloudflare branching out to something closer to a traditional hosting model and further from their networking efforts (though things like workers and R2 certainly have blurred that line).
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1. NicoJuicy ◴[17 Nov 25 22:33 UTC] No.45959174[source]▶
It feels like more related to this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-runs-more-ai-mode...

And doing it their way than the traditional way.

Note: Their innovation seems to lie in smaller and fine-tuned ( broader catalog) models than larger ones. So Replicate seems a perfect match.

The traditional way: Rent a GPU and run inference on an container.