Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare
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4 hours ago
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| blog.cloudflare.com
| HN
fodkodrasz
2 hours ago
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I searched but could not find the "bought" or "money" or "dollar" or "stock" words in the marketing fluff piece, so it definitely does not answer the question in the title.

What was the value of the transaction?

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mrweasel
1 hour ago
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The term "joining" irritates me more than it should, because you're correct in asking "What is the value of the transaction?". My guess is that they aren't joining anything, CloudFlare bought the company and is keeping the team.
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pzo
1 hour ago
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The did explain a little bit:

> We’ll be able to do things like run fast models on the edge, run model pipelines on instantly-booting Workers, stream model inputs and outputs with WebRTC, etc.

Benefit to 3rd party developers is reducing latency and improving robustness of AI pipeline. Instead of going back and forth with https request at each stage to do inference you could make all in one request, e.g. doing realtime, pipelined STT, text translation, some backend logic, TTS and back to user mobile device.

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weird-eye-issue
1 hour ago
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You are seemingly answering something that they did not ask at all
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badmonster
1 hour ago
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Does edge inference really solve the latency issue for most use cases? How does cost compare at scale?
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viraptor
55 minutes ago
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Depends on how much the latency matters to you and the customers. Most services realistically won't gain much at all. Even the latency of normal web requests is very rarely relevant. Only the business itself and answer that question though.
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dmoy
2 hours ago
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> What was the value of the transaction?

I think this is being intentionally kept under wraps, so nobody who can say anything knows.

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GaryBluto
1 hour ago
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It's a pretentious way of saying they acquired them. https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/acquisitions/
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nottorp
49 minutes ago
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So how long until Cloudflare joins the hated monopolies list?
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MildlySerious
34 minutes ago
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Their entire business model is effectively centralizing the web. The downtime over the last two weeks shows some of the problem with that.

I have used their products and have more favor toward them than I do for the corporations you're referring to, but ultimately my question is the same.

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bitfis
28 minutes ago
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My guess, just a time question. Is Cloudflare publicly traded?
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vidalee
10 minutes ago
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They are, on the NYSE: $NET
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gostsamo
35 minutes ago
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I hate them a bit already, but beyond bringing down parts of the internet from time to time and occasional captchas, they are not an everyday annoyance like Google, Microsoft, and the rest.
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tete
1 hour ago
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Hmm, an AI company joining Cloudflare, a company's whose major strength is to take their customer's websites offline, selling it as saving the internet and such.

Maybe when the AI overlords take over Cloudflare will be our last bastion of defense. :D

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epse
40 minutes ago
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Cloud flare taking a strong anti ai scraping stance. Then turning around and acquiring an AI hosting service also feels contradictory
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ChrisArchitect
3 hours ago
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Related:

Replicate is joining Cloudflare

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953702

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