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Applied AI·October 10, 2026·1 min read

Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request

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Top labs are now negotiating compute like oil majors negotiate offtake—direct, bilateral, and personal. If you're planning large-scale training or inference, treat GPU access as a strategic dependency and lock in multi-source capacity before you need it.

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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

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.