Workers AI, Email Routing, and ZX Spectrum retro computing

After a special episode about the Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage, which you can check here , this week's program features insights from two speakers at the Web Summit conference held this week in Lisbon, Portugal. Cassie Kozyrkov, former Chief Decision Scientist at Google and CEO of Data Scientific, shares her perspectives. Additionally, we hear from Andrew Sullivan, President and CEO of the Internet Society. The full interview will be published in the upcoming weeks.

Continuing from Lisbon, João Tomé joins Celso Martinho, our Senior Director of Engineering, to discuss two ongoing projects. The first project, Email Routing, now includes subdomain support, new APIs, and enhanced security protocols. The second project, Workers AI, our serverless GPU-powered inference platform that operates on Cloudflare’s global network, now is offering streaming and longer context lengths for LLMs. We explain what that is and how helpful it can be.

There are also some news about Cloudflare One audit capabilities, and WAF rules creation simplified with the introduction of hostname and ASN lists.

Taking a nostalgic turn, we go into retro gaming memories, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum home computer, a popular device in the UK and Europe during the 1980s (now in its 41st year in the UK).

Lastly, in the short segment "Ask the CTO," our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, answers audience questions:

• How do you perceive the current AI era compared to the AI and machine learning landscape you observed a few decades ago?
• Do you anticipate Cloudflare venturing into affordable direct server hosting (VPSs, Dedicated Servers, Instances, etc.)?

You can check the mentioned blog posts:

• Email Routing subdomain support, new APIs and security protocols
• Streaming and longer context lengths for LLMs on Workers AI
• Introducing advanced session audit capabilities in Cloudflare One
• Introducing hostname and ASN lists to simplify WAF rules creation