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Cloudflare and OpenAI report early results from an AI discovery pilot

blog.cloudflare.com by Matthew Conroy et al. 4 min read Editor score 6/10

The pilot used Cloudflare network signals to surface previously unknown pages in OpenAI’s search index. Engineers working on AI retrieval can weigh the role of web-scale discovery signals, though the excerpt gives no quantitative results.

What: - Cloudflare and OpenAI launched a pilot to test whether Cloudflare network signals could help ChatGPT discover web content.
How: - Cloudflare’s signals help OpenAI’s search crawler find pages, which OpenAI evaluates and ranks; the pilot enabled discovery and indexing of hundreds of millions of pages.
Why it matters: - Better page discovery gives AI systems more relevant, timely sources to draw on and helps connect users with original content.

Cloudflare network signals feed page discovery, followed by OpenAI ranking for ChatGPT users. Sketched from the article's own text.

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