R2 provides an affordable, zero egress solution
to support the architectural freedom needed to train AI models
Groundbreaking generative AI companies,
including Character.ai, Leonardo.ai., Lexica.art, and SiteGPT.ai,
rely on Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and
reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today
announced that Cloudflare R2 Storage, the distributed object
storage that eliminates egress costs, is providing essential
infrastructure for leading generative artificial intelligence (AI)
companies. Cloudflare is announcing several partnerships with AI
infrastructure companies to help companies avoid vendor lock-in and
make training generative AI models accessible and affordable.
Generative AI requires massive amounts of computing power and
relies on graphics processing units (GPUs) to quickly and
efficiently process enormous amounts of data to train the large
language models (LLMs) that are at the core of their offerings.
With the sudden acceleration of generative AI companies coming on
the market, these companies are now facing a scarcity of processing
power from their cloud providers. This requires companies to move
data across multiple clouds or regions to find available GPUs,
resulting in skyrocketing costs that cloud providers typically
charge for data transfer – especially transfers that are frequent
or over large distances. In addition, as new GPU chips optimized
for AI workloads are released, AI startups want the flexibility to
use the best technology available and not be locked into a single
ecosystem. Cloudflare R2 Storage solves both these challenges by
providing zero-cost egress – making it simple to migrate large
volumes of data across clouds and easily use best-in-class
technology.
“Cloudflare is providing the first developer platform built for
the age of AI,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of
Cloudflare. “AI companies understand that Cloudflare is designed
for speed and efficiency, enabling them to be competitive in this
rapidly changing market. As they grow in popularity and traffic,
we’re there to help with storage, security, and performance as
costs and bots sneak up on them. Our global network and zero egress
fees means these developers can focus on innovating fast, and worry
less on the cost and technical decisions that sneak up on
them.”
“AI has always put a high demand on storage needs, and
Generative AI will only accelerate that trend,’ says Dave McCarthy,
Research Vice President at IDC. “While the cloud has become a
logical place to store data, 64% of technology decision makers
claim they are spending more than their budgets. The secret is out
– data transfer fees are a big factor in overall cloud costs.”
Cloudflare Partners with AI Infrastructure Companies
Cloudflare is announcing several new partnerships to support
generative AI companies using R2 Storage as part of the
infrastructure for their training models. These partnerships will
ensure that the innovation around AI-specialized and distributed
GPUs works the way it was intended, eliminating vendor lock-in and
making training generative AI models accessible and affordable:
- CoreWeave is a specialized cloud provider, delivering a massive
scale of GPUs on top of the industry’s fastest and most flexible
infrastructure. "At CoreWeave, we build infrastructure for compute
intensive use cases, empowering businesses to transform how we
engage with technology through Generative AI and LLMs. This
specialization unlocks access to the scale and variety of GPUs that
our clients require, on an infrastructure purpose-built for
performance, agility, and efficiency that AI workloads rely on,"
said Max Hjelm, VP of Sales, CoreWeave. "By partnering with
Cloudflare’s R2 Storage, we're able to further alleviate data
lock-in driven by ballooning egress fees on the hyperscalers and
empower multi-cloud for businesses that benefit from it in a
meaningful way."
- Lambda, Inc. is the world’s best deep learning cloud and the
only public cloud designed for and focused on training LLMs &
foundation models. “Lambda provides the easiest way to launch
training and inference jobs on NVIDIA GPUs - and with our latest
on-demand NVIDIA H100 launch at world’s best price - you can go
from signing up to the cloud platform to train or finetune a Gen
AI/LLM model within minutes,” said Mitesh Agrawal, Lambda COO and
head of cloud. “Our partnership with Cloudflare R2 will help joint
customers extend this amazing solution with a best of breed object
storage solution without having to worry about egress costs, which
is a very common issue in the multi-cloud world."
- MosaicML helps customers easily train and deploy large AI
models with full data privacy and model ownership, and will now
support R2 in their open source libraries and training platform.
“With the MosaicML training platform, customers can efficiently use
Cloudflare R2 as the durable storage backend for training LLMs on
any compute provider with zero egress fees,” said Naveen Rao, CEO
and co-founder, MosaicML. “AI companies are facing outrageous cloud
costs, and they are on the hunt for the tools that can provide them
with the speed and flexibility to train their best model 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 needed to serve
up real-time inferences, images, conversations, and more with users
around the world.
- "Character AI is building the next generation of dialog agents
across industries spanning entertainment, education, and more. R2
has been the glue behind our multi-cloud architecture for training
and processing requests. We are now able to store our training and
production data in R2 for access by any cloud, without egress fees,
and get the best prices and performance across multiple cloud
providers. Cloudflare is helping us rapidly expand our
infrastructure and envision the future of conversational AI." –
Myle Ott, Founding Researcher, Character AI
- “Leonardo.ai brings AI-powered creative tools to users like
indie game developers and creators. After launching, our explosive
growth was a near existential crisis – the exorbitant data transfer
costs from other providers were not sustainable for an early stage,
high-growth startup in a data intensive space. Cloudflare’s R2
saved the day. The API compatibility meant switching over our apps
was a breeze, with minimal engineering effort. The dashboard tool
for migrating our existing data worked flawlessly. And the pricing
is unbeatable, the best we found both on a per-GB and egress cost
basis.” – Pete Werner, Head of AI, Leonardo.ai
- "Lexica's users are generating millions of images per month,
letting them unleash their creativity and express themselves in new
ways. Lexica.art wouldn't be possible without R2 and Workers. Using
these products has given us a lot of control over the images we
serve and helps us keep the website snappy and responsive. With the
number of requests we serve, it would easily cost 100x more on
Amazon." – Sharif Shameem, founder, Lexica.art
- "SiteGPT is working to make personalized chatbots accessible to
every website. We use Cloudflare for everything – storage, cache,
queues, and most importantly for training data and deploying the
app on the edge, so I can ensure the product is reliable and fast.
It's also been the most affordable option, with competitors costing
more for a single day's worth of requests than Cloudflare costs in
a month. The power of the developer platform and performance tools
made it an easy choice to build with Cloudflare." – Bhanu Teja
Pachipulusu, founder, SiteGPT.ai
To learn more, please check out the resources below:
- Blog: Cloudflare R2 and MosaicML enable training LLMs on any
compute, anywhere in the world, with zero switching costs
- Product Page: R2 Storage
- See how much you can save with the R2 Calculator
About Cloudflare
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mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare’s suite of
products protect and accelerate any Internet application online
without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of
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