🧙🏼 Cloudflare's AI audit

Also: Fastest growing B2B AI companies

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Dario Chincha
September 25, 2024

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Here’s what’s cooking in AI today…

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Cloudflare just announced AI Audit, a set of tools to help websites analyze and control how their content is being used by AI models. For the first time, content creators can easily see how AI bots are accessing their content and decide whether—and how—these models can use it.

Here’s what AI audit is about:

  • It allows website owners to automatically block or allow AI bots with a single click.

  • Gives analytics on AI bots to understand when and how often AI models access your site. Also, it distinguishes between different AI bots (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.).

  • Cloudflare also has in development a feature that allows publishers to set a price for content access; meaning AI companies will have to pay to scan their content. This feature is set to launch sometime in the next year.

  • The analytics report will publishers in determining compensations with AI companies, as it give detailed metrics on crawling.

The AI blocking capability is already accessible in Cloudflare. Site owners can join a waitlist for the price-setting capabilities here.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Cloudflare acting as an intermediary to restrict AI bots’ access to the web makes total sense to me. They’re already great at blocking unwanted bot traffic for websites, so simplifying the process of managing AI bots is a natural next step. This is especially helpful for small publishers who might find this stuff a bit technical. Plus, the ability to set a fair price for content access is huge. Everyone benefits—publishers thrive and readers get high-quality content without everything becoming paywalled. Assuming it works as intended, it seems to be a more sustainable distribution of the revenue made online – so I’m very excited about this update.

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This one actually came out 1.5 months ago but I somehow missed it. It includes a list over the fastest growing AI vendors based on customer count for the first 2 quarters of this year. That’s interesting because most of what you see focuses on consumer AI; Ramp manages corporate card transactions and their data can therefore shed light on what’s trending in B2B.

Here’s the list (I’ve added links so you can check them out quickly):

Source: Ramp card transaction data, January to June 2024. Note: The company originally listed as “Instill AI” has been updated to “Cursor” in accordance with Ramp’s correction.

Lots of interesting corporate use cases here, and a few companies I hadn’t heard about before. We’ve reviewed several of these on whatplugin.ai/reviews in case you’re curious if they’re any good:

Fireflies AI - a worthy meeting assistant (lots of integrations)

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Ramp processes billions in transactions for companies, so they have unique insights into B2B spending, something we don’t often see since most AI trend data is B2C-focused. In the report, they also reveal how “sticky” these vendors are – products are more sticky now than in earlier years, which I think implies that AI products have gotten better and more useful for businesses. It may not be the most surprising insight, but nevertheless good to see some actual data on it.

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