I searched but could not find the "bought" or "money" or "dollar" or "stock" words in the marketing fluff piece, so it definitely does not answer the question in the title.

What was the value of the transaction?

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mrweasel 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The term "joining" irritates me more than it should, because you're correct in asking "What is the value of the transaction?". My guess is that they aren't joining anything, CloudFlare bought the company and is keeping the team.

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shawabawa3 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> CloudFlare bought the company and is keeping the team.

So the team is joining cloudflare...?

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michaelt 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

After an incredible journey, I’m excited to announce a case of beer is joining my fridge.

	▲	malfist 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think it's more like: after an incredible journey, I'm excited to announce this hamburger is joining my stomach

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mrweasel 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sure, but Replicate will probably cease to exist in the near future. So a more accurate title could be: Cloudflare buys out Replicate and transfers staff to internal teams.

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the_gipsy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And the money is joining some bank accounts!

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locknitpicker 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> So the team is joining cloudflare...?

That's not a given as well. An acquisition usually involves restructuring the acquired company, sometimes in a way where the original team ceases to exist.

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LtWorf 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No they will all get sacked next year.

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GaryBluto 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a pretentious way of saying they acquired them. https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/acquisitions/

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amiga386 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Let us see if Replicate and Cog are shut down, and it becomes an Incredible Journey: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/89180616013/wha...

	▲	sg0pf 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> An incredible journey is: One company buying another and closing its services down. This is a purchase of the second company’s staff, rather than their product. An acquihire. > This is what is galling. A company that can afford to pay millions for some new staff but not for what those staff built. The people who used the service, and invested their belief and time in uploading photos, or forming friendships, or logging data, are left to find new virtual homes while their former hosts enjoy a nice (if possibly delayed) payday. > This repeated pattern only encourages more people to create flashy services that have no hope of being sustainable businesses in their own right, but may survive long enough, with VC funding, to attract the attention of a large company eager for new ideas and staff. The last paragraph is what gets me -- it makes sense to me found startups in hopes to be acquired (continue their work with the support of a big company), but founding with the intention to abandon your users? Yuck.

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dmoy 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> What was the value of the transaction?

I think this is being intentionally kept under wraps, so nobody who can say anything knows.

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7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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pzo 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The did explain a little bit:

> We’ll be able to do things like run fast models on the edge, run model pipelines on instantly-booting Workers, stream model inputs and outputs with WebRTC, etc.

Benefit to 3rd party developers is reducing latency and improving robustness of AI pipeline. Instead of going back and forth with https request at each stage to do inference you could make all in one request, e.g. doing realtime, pipelined STT, text translation, some backend logic, TTS and back to user mobile device.

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weird-eye-issue 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You are seemingly answering something that they did not ask at all

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badmonster 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does edge inference really solve the latency issue for most use cases? How does cost compare at scale?

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viraptor 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Depends on how much the latency matters to you and the customers. Most services realistically won't gain much at all. Even the latency of normal web requests is very rarely relevant. Only the business itself and answer that question though.

	▲	chrisweekly an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> "Even the latency of normal web requests is very rarely relevant." Hard disagree. Performance is typically the most important feature for any website. User abandonment / bounce rate follows a predictable, steep, nonlinear curve based on latency.