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by __natty__ 29 days ago
Sounds different because it’s hidden advertisement not a regular blog post
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But why would cloudflare advertise Anthropic? They are competing with Anthropic by hosting open weights models.
It's circular financing. It's a circlejerk. It's a circular financing jerk.
Can you elaborate? That just seems to be a Cloudflare's announcement from May 2025 that they'd be supporting MCP servers.
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.
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.
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.

> 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.