Cloudflare introduces open multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash

Summary

IT Home reported on October 2, 2026, that Cloudflare introduced two open multimodal decision models, Clef and Clef-flash. According to the report, Clef is based on Qwen3.8-27B, while Clef-flash uses Qwen3.5-9B. Both include a vision encoder, accept image input, support classification and related decision tasks, and extend the context window to 64K. Cloudflare also released a reinforcement-learning product that lets customers fine-tune Clef for their own business scenarios. The stated goal is to move beyond text generation so a model can select actions or categories from multimodal information. The exact open-source scope, licenses, weights, and deployment requirements should be checked on Cloudflare’s release pages and repositories.