Cloudflare
1 item across 1 edition. First seen Sat 10 Oct, last seen Sat 10 Oct.
- Clef-omni, released on October 9, is built on a Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct mixture-of-experts foundation with the text-to-speech output components discarded, and takes audio (WAV or MP3) and video (MP4 or WebM) alongside text and images. Cloudflare says text-only decisions return in about 130 ms at the median, image inputs in about 150 ms, and a full 21-second video clip with sound is scored in about 1.5 seconds.
- Cloudflare cut Clef-flash from $0.09 to $0.038 per million input tokens, prices Clef-omni at $0.15 and leaves Clef at $0.24; the Clef models do not charge for output tokens. Cloudflare says Clef-flash is now cheaper than TypeSafe's Jev. Hosted Clef also got faster, with ~800-token requests dropping from 262 ms to 152 ms at the median and ~3,400-token requests from 616 ms to 305 ms.
- The price cut came with a trade-off: Clef-flash's hosted context window is now 24k rather than the 64k previously advertised. Cloudflare says only 0.24% of requests exceed 24k input tokens and that the Hugging Face weights are untouched and support 256k for self-hosting.
- The benchmark figures are Cloudflare's own and include results where Clef-omni trails the earlier Clef — 73.2 against 79.60 on PhishNChips accuracy, and 69.3 against 82.95 on home-appliances case-exact. No independent reproduction is reported.