Overview
- Cloudflare announced an agreement to buy Replicate, an AI platform for deploying and running models, with the transaction subject to customary closing conditions.
- Replicate will continue as a distinct brand during the transition, and its API and existing models will keep working without changes.
- Cloudflare plans to make Replicate’s catalog of more than 50,000 production-ready models available to developers building serverless applications on Workers AI.
- Company leaders say integration will let developers discover and deploy models on Cloudflare’s global network with minimal setup, targeting access via a single line of code.
- Replicate’s team and technology are slated to power custom models and pipelines on Workers AI and to accelerate Cloudflare’s AI inference and container roadmaps.