AI agents and reasoning

AI that plans, uses tools and works through problems step by step.

Monday, 5 October

  1. Cloudflare's new Clef models answer with a choice, not a paragraph

    Most AI models reply in sentences. Cloudflare's new Clef models pick an answer from a fixed list and say how sure they are, which suits jobs like sending a support ticket to the right team. There are two versions: Clef, built on a 27-billion-parameter Qwen model, and the smaller Clef-flash, built on a 9-billion one. Both are free to download under the Apache 2.0 licence. Cloudflare says a typical answer takes 209.3 ms from Clef and 38.8 ms from Clef-flash.

    Read at Cloudflare blog · 1 October 2026