Cloudflare has announced its partnership with NVIDIA, enabling large-scale AI deployment at the network edge. The U.S. firm provides day-to-day solutions for developing AI-enabled applications and machine learning models. NVIDIA’s contribution will help increase the performance of Cloudflare’s solutions.

A Solution for Large-Scale AI Deployment from a Partnership of Two World-Class Companies

The collaboration will combine NVIDIA’s computing acceleration technologies with Cloudflare’s edge network. The security, performance, and reliability company aims to create a platform that allows developers to deploy applications using trained or custom machine learning models in seconds. Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, discusses the platform and the value of the partnership with NVIDIA:

“Cloudflare Workers is one of the fastest and most widely adopted edge computing products, and has security built into its DNA. Now, by collaborating with NVIDIA, we are providing developers with powerful artificial intelligence tools to build the applications that will define the future.”

A promise of reduced latency

Using the TensorFlow platform, an open source machine learning tool developed by Google, programmers will be able to use their own tools to design and test machine learning models. They will also be able to deploy them globally on the Cloudflare edge network. Cloudflare plans to leverage their expertise and Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure to replicate the same approach for machine learning models. The brand states on its website that it supports around 25 million internet properties.

Together with NVIDIA, the two companies aim to bring machine learning to the entire global online population in milliseconds. This will allow everyone to benefit from the deployment of high-performance, low-latency AI capabilities. This solution will be based on Cloudflare Workers, launched in 2017. This service allows users to deploy their code without a server anywhere in the world almost instantly.

Kevin Deierling, Vice President of Networks at NVIDIA spoke around the AI technologies developed at NVIDIA, which will enable Cloudflare to design their new platform:

“As businesses become more data-driven, the demand for AI technologies is growing. NVIDIA provides developers with AI infrastructure to support applications ranging from robotics and healthcare to smart cities, and now, with the recent launch of Morpheus, cybersecurity.”

Security and GDPR

This partnership should lead to solving the drawback of deploying machine learning models on expensive centralized servers or via cloud services available only in certain regions around the world. Custom learning models will be kept in Cloudflare’s datacenters to avoid the risks of deploying them on potential users’ devices where they could be stolen.

Users will be able to choose the region(s) where their machine learning model will be stored, an important point in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Translated from Cloudflare et NVIDIA s’associent afin de déployer l’IA à grande échelle dans la périphérie du réseau