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Cloudflare and JD Cloud Announce Partnership to Accelerate AI Inference Deployment and Scaling for Global Developers
SAN FRANCISCO, December 17, 2025--Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, and JD Cloud, an intelligent technology service provider and affiliate of JD.com, today announced plans for a significant expansion of their partnership, aimed at creating a global platform that empowers developers to deploy, manage, and scale AI inference workloads seamlessly.
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