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Assertion Supported
Fanelli: Anthropic scrapes 6,000 pages per referral, compared to OpenAI's 250
“Google would be a two to one crawl to referral ratio, so for every two pages, they will read, they will send you one visitor. He said OpenAI is 250 to one, so they'll read 250 of your pages and send you one person. And Anthropic was like 6000 to one. So they'l…”
Alessio Fanelli Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 50:01 Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
Assertion Contradicted
Pai: Durable Objects are the first infrastructure-level JS actor model
“Durable objects have been around in Cloudflare for about four years now, and I think they are the world's first implementation of the actor model in infrastructure, the thing that Erlang Elixir made, like, super popular. Cloudflare got that out for JavaScript …”
Sunil Pai Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 1:52 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
Disclosure
Agrawal: Positron AI counts Cloudflare and Parasale as early hardware customers
“So we have customers in Cloudflare and Parasale, both using us Cloudflare because of performance per watt.”
Mitesh Agrawal Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 37:54 ⚡️Accelerators @ 3x NVIDIA H200 perf, Made in the USA - Thomas Sohmers + Mitesh Agrawal, Positron AI
Opinion
Kozlov: Bullish on Model Context Protocol (MCP) as key to useful agents
“I'm very bullish on MCP. I'm really, really excited about it, but I think funnily enough, the term MCP is the thing that scares the normies away because it sounds so deeply technical, even though really it's the part that I think is going to Make agents intere…”
Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 22:19 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
Disclosure
Kozlov: Cloudflare heavily researching agent authorization and authentication
“This is a really, really big area of research and investment for us is how do we authorize and authenticate users to act on humans' behalf.”
Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 30:51 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
Disclosure
Kozlov: Cloudflare is working on Durable Object-enabled containers
“Well, the thing that we hinted at, I mean, we are working on it and I think that the big unlock is going to be It's not either or, it's a both, and the thing that we're really excited about that maybe is the thing that I'll leave it to user for is durable obje…”
Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 34:10 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
Opinion
Pai: Durable Objects are the perfect container for AI agents
“These little instances of compute that you can write a code that you can spin up really quickly and scales horizontally across the planet is the perfect little container for running your agents in.”
Sunil Pai Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 2:07 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kozlov: Cloudflare Durable Objects remain widely misunderstood by developers
“There, there's still at least one thread a week that goes something like this. Hey, can someone describe durable objects? And then there are a hundred comments and no two of them are the same. And people walk away equally confused.”
Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 6:23 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
Assertion Supported
Sunil Pai: Cloudflare allows running AI agents without Kubernetes or VMs
“See, bro, the first step was making sure you don't have to use Kubernetes, and that we kind of solved. Now we'll do the rest. Like, that's just it. Like you can run agents without Kubernetes or VMs.”
Sunil Pai Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 25:50 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Colvin: Cloudflare Workers struggles with binary Python dependencies like Pydantic
“Pyodide, which is Python running inside the browser in Scripton, is supported now by Cloudflare. They just, they basically, they're having some struggles working out how to manage, ironically, dependencies that have binaries, in particular Pydantic”
Samuel Colvin Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 19:40 Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Agarwal: AI production will require operational tools just like DevOps enabled cloud
“The more they want platforms like this, and I feel this is similar to what happened with the cloud era back in 2012. You will not have cloud adoption till the time DevOps did not take off, and companies like Datadog, Cloudflare, et cetera, didn't help you buil…”
Rohit Agarwal Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 30:03 Why every AI Engineer needs an AI Gateway (ft Portkey.ai CEO)
Assertion Supported
Marimo Surpasses 300K Monthly PyPI Downloads and Jupyter's GitHub Stars
“I think last I checked, over 300,000 monthly downloads on PyPy. More GitHub stars than Jupyter Notebook for whatever that's worth. And we're used at companies like OpenAI, Hugging Face, Cloudflare, BlackRock, universities like Stanford and Berkeley.”
Akshay Agrawal Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 2:07 ⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo
Disclosure
Cloudflare plans to backport Agents API into regular Durable Objects
“We're probably going to backport that API into, like, regular durable objects now, like, out of the library.”
Sunil Pai Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 15:14 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
Insight
Kozlov: Observability across millions of running agents is the next major challenge
“I think the next challenge is observability and okay, I've gone and spun off. I have 100,000, maybe millions of agents that are running. How do I track their different states? How do I track where their stock? I think that that's a really interesting next prob…”
Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 20:35 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
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