Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B
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Open-weight, Qwen-based decision models from a network player like Cloudflare push more of the AI stack toward commodity infra rather than proprietary assistants. If you’re building internal decision agents, you now have a credible multimodal option that can live closer to your edge and security posture instead of being locked into a single lab API.
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