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Thursday, October 1UTC

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    CloudflareClef and Clef-flashModels

    Cloudflare releases typed decision models for agent routing and guardrails

    Cloudflare launched Clef and Clef-flash on Workers AI. They score allowed answers to typed questions rather than generating free-form prose, giving applications structured probabilities for routing, classification and action checks. The models support visual inputs and a 64k context window; official model pages and Cloudflare-owned Hugging Face distribution corroborate availability. Flash weights are published with an Apache-2.0 license. Fine-tuning starts as a hands-on service; a self-serve RL platform is future work, not an available turnkey product.

    Cloudflare4 sources

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Wednesday, September 30UTC

  1. New
    CloudflareAI Gateway Auto RouterDeveloper

    Cloudflare launches a model router that balances agent task quality and cost

    AI Gateway's Auto Router is in public beta. It chooses among eligible models using request difficulty, expected quality and trajectory cost, accounting for gateway policies, credentials and cache-switching costs. Cloudflare reports internal savings, but its own comparison also shows different task-success rates; savings are not a universal guarantee.

    Cloudflare1 source

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