Cloudflare is set to acquire the AI platform Replicate. With this deal, the company aims to transform Cloudflare Workers into a " leading" platform for AI applications. Developers will soon have access to more than 50,000 AI models within the reach of a single line of code. Ben Firshman, co-founder and CEO of Replicate, emphasizes that the complexity of AI development still lies too much with developers today.
To support HTTP client APIs, Cloudflare reimplemented the core node:http APIs by building on top of the standard fetch() API that Workers use natively, maintaining Node.js compatibility without significantly affecting performance. The wrapper approach supports standard HTTP methods, request and response headers, request and response bodies, streaming responses, and basic authentication. However, the managed approach makes it impossible to support a subset of Node.js APIs.