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[00:00] Aaron Cole: Welcome to the program. Today we're looking at a major shift in how personal AI is deployed.
[00:06] Aaron Cole: Cloudflare has just demonstrated MULT Worker, an open-source implementation that brings
[00:12] Aaron Cole: self-hosted AI agents off your local hardware and directly to the edge.
[00:17] Lauren Mitchell: This is essentially about making the MULT bot assistant, which some might remember as
[00:21] Lauren Mitchell: Cloudbot, a lot more accessible.
[00:24] Lauren Mitchell: By using the Cloudflare developer platform, they're removing that requirement for a dedicated home server or a VPS that you have to babysit.
[00:32] Aaron Cole: The technical breakdown is what's really interesting here, Lauren.
[00:35] Aaron Cole: They're using an entry point worker to handle API routing, but the actual heavy lifting happens in isolated sandbox containers.
[00:44] Aaron Cole: It's a clever way to keep the MULTBOT runtime secure while running on their infrastructure.
[00:49] Lauren Mitchell: Mm-hmm.
[00:50] Lauren Mitchell: One of the biggest hurdles for these agents is memory, but Cloudflare is using R2 storage to handle state persistence.
[00:59] Lauren Mitchell: That means your conversation history and session data stay intact even though the containers themselves are ephemeral.
[01:06] Lauren Mitchell: It solves the reset problem we often see with serverless functions.
[01:10] Aaron Cole: They've also integrated their AI gateway and browser rendering, so the agent can navigate
[01:16] Aaron Cole: the web using headless Chromium without you needing to host a browser instance.
[01:21] Aaron Cole: It's all unified under Cloudflare Zero Trust Access to keep the admin UI locked down.
[01:27] Lauren Mitchell: But Aaron, we have to talk about the community reaction.
[01:30] Lauren Mitchell: While some users are calling this the set it and forget it version they've been waiting
[01:36] Lauren Mitchell: for, others, like Peter Choi, are raising flags.
[01:38] Lauren Mitchell: They're questioning if moving to the edge ruins the original appeal of having 100% local control over your data.
[01:47] Aaron Cole: That's notable.
[01:49] Aaron Cole: That's the core tension, isn't it?
[01:50] Aaron Cole: Convenience versus sovereignty.
[01:53] Aaron Cole: Cloudflare is being clear that Maltworker is a proof of concept, not a finished product.
[01:58] Aaron Cole: But it shows how much agent logic can now move to the edge as node.js compatibility improves.
[02:06] Lauren Mitchell: From a risk perspective, it centralizes the trust in Cloudflare's platform.
[02:11] Lauren Mitchell: For a lot of people, that's a better trade than the tour of managing a local box.
[02:16] Lauren Mitchell: But for the privacy-hardened crowd, it's a significant pivot.
[02:21] Aaron Cole: If you want to see how the architecture holds up, the project is already open-sourced on GitHub.
[02:26] Aaron Cole: It's a fascinating look at the future of agentic workflows.
[02:30] Lauren Mitchell: It definitely sets a new benchmark for what's possible at the edge.
[02:34] Lauren Mitchell: I have been looking at the documentation and the potential for scaling is really impressive.
[02:40] Aaron Cole: Thanks for listening to Prime Cyber Insights.
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[02:56] Aaron Cole: We'll see you next time.