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Re: Replicate is joining Cloudflare

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Post by NicoJuicy »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #15
simonw wrote: post #3

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

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).

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.

Re: Replicate is joining Cloudflare

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Post by redwood »

flashblaze wrote: post #53
ectospheno wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Replicate was far from a monopoly and cloudflare was arguably worse off in this space. Together they still aren’t anywhere near monopoly status for running models.

Who are the other ones? I'm aware of fal apart from Replicate

Together Fireworks Hugging face Modal AWS Azure Google CoreWeave

To name a few but on hwy 101 today there were billboards for more

Re: Replicate is joining Cloudflare

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Post by sabatonfan »

sabatonfan wrote: post #33
redwood wrote: post #5

Cloudflare is one of those companies similar to palantir where the valuation just makes you scratch your head. But bringing in AI to try and fill out the AI valuation makes some sense I suppose

I havent looked into the financials but the reasons I really like cloudflare is that its workers are free without card for 100k and even after that its ridiculously cheap and cloudflare tunnels and a lot of features are free and really appreciate it I feel like people like to rub that one time cloudflare messed up when I mention it but it was a gambling website and I feel like cloudflare could've better communicated…

Edit: Although I still stand with what I say, this comment has also aged like fine milk with cloudflare taking down aws,chatgpt and x and sooo many others that cloudflare outage had more upvotes on HN (if I am correct, I can be wrong tho, nothing new about it as well ) and thus more impact...

Honestly now the only stable provider which doesn't have an outage is google cloud in sick twisted fate

I am wishing when google cloud has its outage so I can recommend everybody to use hetzner (yes I know its not an apples to orange comparisons but hetzner has some crazy good uptime)

Re: Replicate is joining Cloudflare

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Post by redwood »

sabatonfan wrote: post #67
sabatonfan wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I havent looked into the financials but the reasons I really like cloudflare is that its workers are free without card for 100k and even after that its ridiculously cheap and cloudflare tunnels and a lot of features are free and really appreciate it I feel like people like to rub that one time cloudflare messed up when I mention it but it was a gambling website and I feel like cloudflare could've better communicated…

Edit: Although I still stand with what I say, this comment has also aged like fine milk with cloudflare taking down aws,chatgpt and x and sooo many others that cloudflare outage had more upvotes on HN (if I am correct, I can be wrong tho, nothing new about it as well ) and thus more impact... Honestly now the only stable provider which doesn't have an outage is google cloud in sick twisted fate I am wishing when goog…

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