Cloudflare today announced its intention to acquire Replicate, an AI platform that allows developers to deploy and run AI models.
According to Cloudflare, by bringing Replicate into its portfolio, it will be able to turn Cloudflare Workers into a leading platform for building and running AI applications. “Soon, developers building on Cloudflare will be able to access any AI model globally with just one line of code,” the company wrote in an announcement.
Replicate has over 50,000 production-ready AI models, which will be available in Cloudflare Workers AI. Cloudflare will also leverage Replicate’s expertise to add new capabilities to Workers AI, such as the ability to run custom models and pipelines.
Existing Replicate users will be able to keep using their APIs and workflows without interruption, and will soon be able to benefit from Cloudflare’s network.
“We’re still in the early innings of developers building AI applications, and too much of the complexity falls on the developer today. Replicate was founded on the mission to solve that—to build the fundamental tools that make AI development truly accessible and easy,” said Ben Firshman, co-founder and CEO of Replicate. “We are thrilled to be joining the Cloudflare team. By combining our extensive library of models and developer community with Cloudflare’s global network, we are creating the platform where developers can seamlessly build and deploy tomorrow’s next big AI applications.”