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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Replicate. Co-founder and former CEO; now Anthropic Labs. Co-founder, Replicate (Cloudflare).\n\nBen Firshman co-founded Replicate, a platform for running machine learning models through an API, in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch. He previously worked on product at Docker, where he created Docker Compose. In November 2025 he announced that Replicate was joining Cloudflare.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfirsh/\n- X: https://x.com/bfirsh\n\n## What Ben builds\n\n- [Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-deploy.md), graded B, 63.7/100, in GPU \u0026 serverless compute. Replicate's service for deploying and running custom models. Co-founder, Replicate, researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-image.md), graded D, 50.3/100, in Image generation. Model platform running official and community image models through one predictions API. Co-founder and former CEO; now Anthropic Labs, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [MusicGen on Replicate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-musicgen.md), graded C, 54.4/100, in Music generation. Replicate's hosted copy of Meta's open-weights MusicGen (stereo-melody-large, stereo-large, melody-large, large), prompted with text or a melody clip. Co-founder, Replicate (Cloudflare), researched 2026-10-26.\n- [Replicate video models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-video.md), graded B, 62.2/100, in Video generation. Replicate runs third-party and open video models, among them Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Runway Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.0 and Wan, through one predictions API with Python and JavaScript clients and an MCP server. Co-founder, Replicate (Cloudflare), researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Andreas Jansson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andreas-jansson/), Co-founder, Replicate\n- [Shridhar Athinarayanan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shridhar-athinarayanan/), Models Engineer\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Ben Firshman?\n\nBen Firshman co-founded Replicate, a platform for running machine learning models through an API, in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch. He previously worked on product at Docker, where he created Docker Compose. In November 2025 he announced that Replicate was joining Cloudflare.\n\n### What does Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Replicate Deployments, Replicate image models, MusicGen on Replicate and Replicate video models from Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare). Replicate's service for deploying and running custom models.\n\n### How are Ben's tools graded?\n\nReplicate Deployments is graded B, 63.7 out of 100; Replicate image models is graded D, 50.3 out of 100; MusicGen on Replicate is graded C, 54.4 out of 100; Replicate video models is graded B, 62.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/replicate\n- https://replicate.com/\n- https://replicate.com/about\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/35139-ben-firshman\n- https://replicate.com/blog/replicate-cloudflare\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfirsh/\n- https://x.com/bfirsh\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/421489-andreas-jansson\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/janssonandreas\n- https://shridharathi.com\n- https://replicate.com/shridharathi\n- https://replicate.com/blog/flux-kontext-optimization\n- https://replicate.com/blog/how-to-prompt-seedream-5\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shridhar-athinarayanan-638493199/\n- https://x.com/shridharathi\n- https://replicate.com\n- https://replicate.com/stability-ai/stable-diffusion-3.5-large/readme\n- https://replicate.com/docs/topics/models/hardware\n- https://replicate.com/support\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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