Replicate is an AI model deployment and inference platform that was acquired by Cloudflare in December 2025 and now operates as a distinct brand within it. Replicate's Twitter Score is 60 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #14,438 (top 5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Replicate was co-founded by Ben Firshman and Andreas Jansson with the goal of making machine learning accessible to software engineers. The platform gives developers a single API through which they can deploy, run, fine-tune, and experiment with AI models, effectively functioning as both a hosting infrastructure and a marketplace for ready-to-use models. Replicate was started in October 2019 and launched publicly out of stealth in February 2023.
Replicate raised $17.8M in venture backing, including a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, announced alongside its public launch. A subsequent $40M Series B followed in December 2023, again led by a16z, with participation from NVentures, Heavybit, Sequoia Capital, and Y Combinator. By 2025, the platform's catalog had grown to more than 50,000 production-ready AI models before Cloudflare announced its acquisition in November 2025.
Replicate has published 3,400 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 66 accounts a total of 131 times, reflecting consistent attention from the developer and AI community.
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The accounts that follow Replicate include 299 founders, 61 angel investors, 83 influencers and 1 VCs, among them Marc Andreessen, Andrej Karpathy, Jake Brukhman, Matthew Graham, Elad Gil and Andrew Chen.