Cloudflare’s R2 is the infrastructure that powers leading AI companies

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE:NET), the security, performance, and reliability company that helps build a better internet, today announced Cloudflare R2 Storage, distributed object storage that eliminates egress costs, is a state-of-the-art generative announced that it is providing the essential infrastructure for intelligence. (AI) companies. Cloudflare is announcing several partnerships with AI infrastructure companies to help businesses avoid vendor lock-in and make training of generative AI models accessible and affordable.

Generative AI requires a large amount of computing power, relying on graphics processing units (GPUs) to process vast amounts of data quickly and efficiently, and large-scale language models (LLMs) at the core of its offerings. train the With the exponential acceleration of generative AI companies entering the market, these companies are now facing a shortage of processing power from cloud providers. This forces enterprises to move data across multiple clouds or regions to find available GPUs, and as a result, cloud providers typically find it difficult to transfer data, especially for frequent or long-distance transfers. The cost to be charged will rise. Additionally, as new GPU chips optimized for AI workloads are released, AI startups want the flexibility to use the best available technology without being locked into a single ecosystem. Cloudflare R2 Storage solves both of these challenges by offering zero-cost egress, easily migrating large amounts of data between clouds, and easy access to best-in-class technology.

“Cloudflare offers the first developer platform built for the AI ​​era,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “AI companies understand that Cloudflare was designed for speed and efficiency to remain competitive in this rapidly changing market. We help you with storage, security, and performance as data creeps in. With our global network and zero egress fees, developers can focus on rapid innovation and not worry about creeping costs or technical decisions. I did.”

Dave McCarthy, research vice president at IDC, said: “AI has always had high demands on storage needs, but generative AI will only accelerate that trend.” “The cloud has become the logical place to store data, but technology 64% of decision makers claim to be spending over budget, and the secret has been revealed: data transfer fees are a major contributor to overall cloud costs.”

Cloudflare Partners with AI Infrastructure Company

Cloudflare is announcing several new partnerships to support generative AI companies using R2 storage as part of their training model infrastructure. These partnerships ensure AI-focused distributed GPU-centric innovation works as intended, eliminates vendor lock-in, and makes training of generative AI models accessible and affordable. will be

• CoreWeave is a specialized cloud provider that delivers massive GPUs on the industry’s fastest and most flexible infrastructure. “At CoreWeave, we build infrastructure for compute-intensive use cases and help companies transform how they interact with technology through Generative AI and LLM. , giving clients access to the scale and variety of GPUs they need,” says Max, vice president of sales at CoreWeave. Hjelm said. “By partnering with Cloudflare’s R2 Storage, we will be able to further mitigate data lock-in from hyperscaler egress bill escalation and bring multi-cloud to enterprises who can reap the benefits of multi-cloud in a meaningful way. .”
• Lambda, Inc. is the world’s best deep learning cloud and the only public cloud designed and focused for LLM and foundational model training. “Lambda offers the easiest way to launch training and inference jobs on NVIDIA GPUs. AI/LLM can be trained and fine-tuned, and models can be created within minutes,” said Mitesh Agrawal, COO and head of cloud at Lambda. “Our partnership with Cloudflare R2 will enable our joint customers to extend this amazing solution with the best object storage solutions without worrying about egress costs, a very common problem in the multi-cloud world. ”
• MosaicML helps customers easily train and deploy AI models at scale with full data privacy and model ownership, and will now support R2 with its open source libraries and training platform. His CEO and co-founder of MosaicML, Naveen Rao, said: “The MosaicML training platform allows customers to efficiently use Cloudflare R2 as a durable storage backend for training LLMs on any compute provider with no egress charges.” Faced with exorbitant cloud costs, they are looking for tools that can give them the speed and flexibility to train the best models at the best price.”

AI companies rely on Cloudflare

AI companies like Character.ai, Leonardo.ai, Lexica.art and SiteGPT.ai rely on Cloudflare to provide the tools they need to bring real-time inference, images, conversations and more to users around the world doing.

• “Character AI is building next-generation conversational agents across industries like entertainment, education, etc. R2 is the glue behind our multi-cloud architecture for training and request processing. and production data can now be stored in:” With R2, you can access it from any cloud with no egress fees and get the best price and performance across multiple cloud providers. . Cloudflare helps you rapidly scale your infrastructure and envision the future of conversational AI. – Myle Ott, Character AI Founding Researcher

• “Leonardo.ai provides AI-powered creative tools to users such as indie game developers and creators. Exorbitant data transfer costs from other providers weren’t sustainable for a high-growth startup early in a data-intensive space, and Cloudflare’s R2 came to the rescue.API Compatibility made it easy to switch between apps with minimal engineering effort, the dashboard tool to migrate existing data worked flawlessly, and the pricing is unmatched, with per GB and Best we found for both egress costs.” – Pete Werner, Head of AI, Leonardo.ai

• “Lexica users generate millions of images every month, unleashing their creativity and expressing themselves in new ways. Lexica.art wouldn’t be possible without R2 and Workers. Giving you a great deal of control over your images, it helps you serve and keep your website fast and responsive.Given the number of requests they handle, Amazon can easily use 100 It will cost twice as much.” – Sharif Shameem, Founder of Lexica.art

• “SiteGPT is committed to making personalized chatbots available on any website. Using Cloudflare ensures that the product is reliable and fast, and it’s also the most affordable option, with competitors costing a day’s worth of requests less than Cloudflare’s cost per month. The power of the developer platform and performance tools made building on Cloudflare an easy choice.” – Bhanu Teja Pachipulusu, SiteGPT.ai Founder

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