Big news: We’re joining Cloudflare.
Replica is going to grow as a niche brand, and all that will happen is that it will get better and better. It will be faster, we will have more resources, and it will integrate with the rest of Cloudflare’s developer platform.
The API is not changing. The models you are using today will continue to work. If you created something on Replica, it will continue to run as it currently does.
So, why are we doing this?
At Replika, we are building primitives for AI: tools and abstractions that let software developers use AI without having to understand all the complexities.
We started with Cog, an open-source tool that defines a standard format for what a model is. Then, we created Replicat, a platform where people can share models and run them with an API. We’ve defined what a model is, how you publish it, how you run it, how you get data in and out.
These abstractions are like low-level primitives of an operating system. But the interesting thing is that these primitives are running in the cloud. They require specialized GPUs and clusters to increase output. It’s like a distributed operating system for AI running in the cloud. In other words, the network itself is the computer.
Who has the best network? Cloud flare up.
Cloudflare also created many other parts of this operating system. Workers are the ideal platform for running agents and glue code. Durable objects to manage state, R2 to store files, WebRTC for streaming media.
Now that we’ve got these low-level abstractions, we can create higher-level abstractions. Ways to organize models and create agents. Ways to run real-time models, or run models at the edge.
That’s why we’re joining Cloudflare.
Throughout my career, I have looked at Cloudflare. How they built a product for developers and turned it into a huge enterprise business. It’s the only truly public company go Developers and know how to build good products for them.
Cloudflare is the default for building web apps. From day one of Replicate, when we were building a prototype to implement at Y Combinator, we put Cloudflare in front of it.
Together, we are going to become the default for building AI apps.
Check out the official announcement on Cloudflare’s blog for more details.