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Sounds different because it’s hidden advertisement not a regular blog post

by __natty__ 5mo ago

grim_io 5mo ago
But why would cloudflare advertise Anthropic? They are competing with Anthropic by hosting open weights models.
- Someone1234 5mo ago
  https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-helps-anthropic-and-leading-tech-companies-to-unlock-real-ai-through-claude-mcp/ https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2025/cloudfl...
  - hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
    It's circular financing. It's a circlejerk. It's a circular financing jerk.
  - neuronexmachina 5mo ago
    Can you elaborate? That just seems to be a Cloudflare's announcement from May 2025 that they'd be supporting MCP servers.
- drak0n1c 5mo ago
  They got privileged early access to an unreleased frontier model to harden their systems, with Anthropic engineer support, and likely were able to use it to make other product optimizations tangential to security too. A blog article afterwards is a cheap price for unlocking that access, regardless of how well it paid off.
- fmbb 5mo ago
  A corporation does not have its own will. Their owners are invested in AI and need AI to do well. If this goal clashes temporarily with the goals set up for Cloudflare, so be it.
- perching_aix 5mo ago
  Not how I took it, but that this was a lot more marketing than content, while their other, older blogposts are more content than marketing. It is of course all content marketing, for Cloudflare. That doesn't mean it has to be bad (anemic on meaningful content). On the contrary, it being good is kind of the whole point.
alsetmusic 5mo ago
> Sounds different because it’s hidden advertisement not a regular blog post Yep. Cloudflare has lost my respect over the last six months. The posts about pro-AI initiatives and APIs for AI and then laying off a lot of people was pretty impressive for how to do the wrong thing.

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Sounds different because it’s hidden advertisement not a regular blog post

by __natty__ 5mo ago

Sounds different because it’s hidden advertisement not a regular blog post

grim_io 5mo ago
But why would cloudflare advertise Anthropic? They are competing with Anthropic by hosting open weights models.
- Someone1234 5mo ago
  https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-helps-anthropic-and-leading-tech-companies-to-unlock-real-ai-through-claude-mcp/ https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2025/cloudfl...
  - hdndjsbbs 5mo ago
    It's circular financing. It's a circlejerk. It's a circular financing jerk.
  - neuronexmachina 5mo ago
    Can you elaborate? That just seems to be a Cloudflare's announcement from May 2025 that they'd be supporting MCP servers.
- drak0n1c 5mo ago
  They got privileged early access to an unreleased frontier model to harden their systems, with Anthropic engineer support, and likely were able to use it to make other product optimizations tangential to security too. A blog article afterwards is a cheap price for unlocking that access, regardless of how well it paid off.
- fmbb 5mo ago
  A corporation does not have its own will. Their owners are invested in AI and need AI to do well. If this goal clashes temporarily with the goals set up for Cloudflare, so be it.
- perching_aix 5mo ago
  Not how I took it, but that this was a lot more marketing than content, while their other, older blogposts are more content than marketing. It is of course all content marketing, for Cloudflare. That doesn't mean it has to be bad (anemic on meaningful content). On the contrary, it being good is kind of the whole point.
alsetmusic 5mo ago
> Sounds different because it’s hidden advertisement not a regular blog post Yep. Cloudflare has lost my respect over the last six months. The posts about pro-AI initiatives and APIs for AI and then laying off a lot of people was pretty impressive for how to do the wrong thing.