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Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)

Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally

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