Cloudflare to Cut One-Fifth of Workers in Move to AI-First Model

The Cloudflare headquarters in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Cloudflare Inc. plans to cut more than 1,100 jobs globally as it accelerates its shift to an agentic AI-first operating model.

“Cloudflare’s usage of AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone,” Chief Executive Officer Matthew Prince wrote in a letter to employees. Staff across functions from engineering to HR, finance and marketing, are running thousands of AI-driven workflows each day, he added.