Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare
9 days ago
- #AI
- #Machine Learning
- #Cloudflare
- Replicate is now officially part of Cloudflare.
- Replicate was founded in 2019 to make AI models accessible to developers.
- The company built Cog, a standard packaging format for ML models, and Replicate as a platform to run them.
- Replicate's infrastructure supported the massive interest in Stable Diffusion in 2022.
- AI Engineering has evolved, requiring more than just model inference, including microservices, databases, and more.
- Joining Cloudflare allows Replicate to integrate with Cloudflare's network, Workers, R2, and other services.
- The AI stack is network-centric, with models running on GPUs and connected via cloud functions.
- Replicate aims to build advanced AI infrastructure, like edge models and WebRTC streaming, with Cloudflare.