Elections in 2024, Thanksgiving trends and AI inference in 100 cities

In this week's program, João Tomé discusses with Jocelyn Woolbright from our Public Policy team how Cloudflare is assisting in safeguarding numerous upcoming elections in 2024. We also share Thanksgiving trends and stories. We travel to London to learn from Oxana Kharitonova of our Linux Kernel team why part 4 of the deep dive, "How to execute an object file" (the AArch64 edition), is relevant in our data centers.

From New York, our VP of Developer Relations, Ricky Robinett, introduces two Workers AI (our developer platform with AI capabilities) updates: Stable Diffusion and Code Llama, both now available as part of Workers AI, which is operational in over 100 cities across Cloudflare's global network with AI inference capabilities. Additionally, we've incorporated the Mistral-7B-v0.1-instruct into Workers AI.

In the short segment "Ask the CTO," our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, answers audience questions: Do you believe Cloudflare will have any issues with their free plan as the cost in providing the free plan is higher than the revenue gained from the paid plans?

You can check the mentioned blog posts:

• 2024, the year of elections
• Do hackers eat turkey? And other Thanksgiving Internet trends
• How to execute an object file: Part 4, AArch64 edition
• Workers AI Update: Stable Diffusion, Code Llama + Workers AI in 100 cities
• Workers AI Update: Hello Mistral 7B