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)

Cloudflare has introduced new open-weight multimodal decision models named Clef and Clef-flash. These models are based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B, respectively. Cloudflare claims that Clef and Clef-flash are smarter and faster than their previous model, Jev. While they may cost more, they offer the capability to process images and video. These models are available on Hugging Face for users with sufficient local hardware to run them.