Cloudflare's Clairic pulls data from documents faster and cheaper than LLMs

Cloudflare has released an AI model it says pulls data from documents faster and more cheaply than large language models. Clairic is available in preview on Workers AI, and open weights are set to follow soon.

Users name the fields they want, like an order number or invoice total, and Clairic returns matching values in the right format along with a confidence score. Unlike language models, Clairic doesn't generate text token by token. It answers every field in a single…