{"id":108138,"date":"2025-08-31T05:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T05:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108138\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T05:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T05:04:17","slug":"matthew-prince-the-100-most-influential-people-in-ai-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108138\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Prince: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Funnily enough, Prince says, most of the leading AI companies\u2014who are also Cloudflare customers\u2014welcomed his company\u2019s intervention. \u201cIt\u2019s because they don\u2019t want to be suckers,\u201d he says. \u201cIt can\u2019t be that you pay [to license] content, but your competitors get it for free.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Cloudflare\u2019s blockage, Prince believes, might be the first step toward a new business model for the internet. He doesn\u2019t quite know yet what it will look like\u2014but he intuits that Cloudflare, as a result of its gatekeeper role, might be able to \u201cplay market-maker.\u201d That might mean Cloudflare eventually becomes a place where websites can name their price for AI companies to train on their data\u2014and then charge fees on those transactions. This \u201cpay-per-crawl\u201d model could be a substantial new source of revenue for Cloudflare\u2019s already highly-profitable business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">It also marks a new, gloves-off era for the company. In an August blog, Cloudflare fired a shot at the AI search engine Perplexity, which it accused of scraping content even from sites that had explicitly asked to be exempt from crawlers. Perplexity denied the accusation, calling it a \u201csales pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Funnily enough, Prince says, most of the leading AI companies\u2014who are also Cloudflare customers\u2014welcomed his company\u2019s intervention. \u201cIt\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[77477,256,254,255,64,63,10967,77478,5275,77479,77480,105,77476],"class_list":{"0":"post-108138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-franchise","15":"tag-list","16":"tag-magazine","17":"tag-special-project","18":"tag-sponsorshipblock","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-time100-ai-2025"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}