Cloudflare debuts Clef-omni, supporting audio and video input alongside text and image, makes Clef up to 2x faster, and dramatically cuts Clef-flash pricing
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Cloudflare is pushing open-weight decision models toward commodity infra — multimodal I/O, 2x speed, and cheaper Clef-flash narrows the gap with proprietary stacks for many routing and control-plane tasks. If you're building agents or high-volume inference workflows, you now have more leverage in pricing and architecture negotiations with both clouds and model vendors.
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