Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare

Replicate announced it is joining Cloudflare to build a comprehensive AI infrastructure stack, combining Replicate’s model packaging and serving tools with Cloudflare’s global network, Workers, R2, Durable Objects, and edge capabilities. The partnership aims to enable running fast models at the edge, orchestrating pipelines on instantly-booting Workers, and streaming model I/O with technologies like WebRTC, positioning the network as the core of modern AI applications.