Several new updates make their way into the MCP specification It has been one year since Anthropic first open sourced Model Context Protocol (MCP), and to celebrate this anniversary a new version of the specification is being released. “It’s hard to imagine that a little open-source experiment, a protocol to provide context to models, became … continue reading
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 … continue reading
Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, introduces pay per crawl model Last year, Cloudflare introduced a setting that allowed website owners to block AI crawlers. Now, the company is announcing that this setting will now be the default rather than a user needing to switch it on. The company explained that by switching to … continue reading
Cloudflare is making it easier for developers to create AI agents with several new updates that were announced today. First, the company announced a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. MCP is an open standard that allows AI agents to interact with external services, which is important in enabling them to complete tasks on a … continue reading
Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and it can be hard to keep up with it all. We’ve written this roundup to share updates from 10 notable companies that have recently enhanced their products with AI. Google announces Gemini 2.0 Flash, Flash-Lite, and Pro Gemini 2.0 … continue reading
Cloudflare has announced that Workers AI is now generally available. Workers AI is a solution that allows developers to run machine learning models on the Cloudflare network. The company says its goal is for Workers AI to be the most affordable solution for running inference. To make that happen, it made some optimizations since the … continue reading
Cloudflare has announced the general availability (GA) release of three new products aimed at making full-stack development easier for development teams. The first release is the serverless SQL database D1. With this GA release, the platform is also gaining a number of requested features from the beta, such as support for 10GB databases, new data … continue reading
Cloudflare has launched Workers AI, a solution designed to provide the necessary infrastructure for efficiently and cost-effectively scaling and deploying AI models, catering to the upcoming generation of AI applications. The company has established strategic partnerships to offer GPU access on its global network, enabling low-latency AI inference near users. Paired with the Data Localization … continue reading
Databricks has announced new partnerships with Cloudflare, Dell, Oracle, and Twilio through its Delta Sharing feature, which allows live data to be shared securely with other computing platforms. For example, the Cloudflare connection allows sharing from Databricks to Cloudflare R2, which is Cloudflare’s distributed object storage offering, eliminating the need to manage complex data transfers … continue reading
The web performance and security company Cloudflare today unveiled its new experimental AI assistant, Cursor. The company stated that the assistant is trained to answer questions about Cloudflare’s Developer Platform and acts as the first step in Cloudflare’s AI journey. When asked a question, Cursor responds with two different pieces of information: a text response … continue reading
Cloudflare is attempting to make it easier for developers to build applications on their developer platform. To do so, it has announced Cloudflare Workers Templates. Cloudflare Workers is a capability for building applications, and this new set of templates being released will give developers ideas of what they can build on the platform. For example, … continue reading