{
  "id": 13306479,
  "title": "Cloudflare debuts Clef-omni, supporting audio and video input alongside text and image, makes Clef up to 2x faster, and dramatically cuts Clef-flash pricing (Cloudflare)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/cloudflare-debuts-clef-omni-supporting-audio-and-video-input",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-10T02:40:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-faster-cheaper-multimodal/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Cloudflare has unveiled Clef-omni, an enhanced version of its open-weight decision models, capable of accepting audio, video, image, and text inputs. This update makes Clef up to 2 times faster and reduces the price of Clef-flash to be cheaper than Jev. Clef-omni is a result of a model trained over the weekend and launched within days, showcasing Cloudflare's ability to innovate quickly. By eliminating the need for separate transcription or captioning processes, Clef-omni streamlines multimodal workflows. It achieves this by scoring all modalities and parameter options simultaneously, bypassing the overhead of token generation. The model uses a Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct mixture-of-experts foundation, while discarding non-essential text-to-speech components. Clef-omni executes prefill passes, scoring all modalities and valid options simultaneously to facilitate fast, schema-constrained scoring. Despite a reduction in the context window from 64k to 24k, Clef-flash remains a cost-effective option for many workflows.",
  "summary": "Following last week's release of Clef and Clef-flash, Cloudflare's open-weight decision models, we decided to bring forth more gifts.",
  "key_points": [
    "Clef-omni supports audio, video, image, and text inputs",
    "2x faster performance and cheaper Clef-flash pricing",
    "Eliminates need for separate transcription processes"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Cloudflare's launch of Clef-omni enables streamlined multimodal workflows by integrating audio, video, image, and text inputs, making Clef significantly faster and cheaper, which benefits users with more efficient and cost-effective processing.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}