Cloudflare and OpenAI pilot indexes hundreds of millions of new pages

Cloudflare and OpenAI shared early results from a July 2026 research pilot: signals from Cloudflare's network helped OpenAI discover and index hundreds of millions of new web pages for ChatGPT. The test used a cohort of about 1% of Cloudflare's network, with change signals and filtering aimed at cutting unnecessary crawler load.

• Pilot covered about 1% of Cloudflare's network
• OpenAI indexed hundreds of millions of new pages
• Change signals reduce unnecessary crawler fetches
• Metadata is used for search, not model training