Cloudflare said agentic traffic has surpassed human traffic for the first time in internet history.

Cloudflare has acquired Voidzero, the company behind the open source JavaScript tooling ecosystem Vite, for an undisclosed amount, at a time when working with AI coding agents is becoming the new norm.

Acquiring Voidzero will help Cloudflare expand AI-generated code analysis, it said, by unifying the Vite build tool, Vitest test runner, Rust-based Rolldown bundler and Oxc toolchain, natively, into its ecosystem.

“The best engineers I know are shipping more code than ever and writing less of it by hand. AI is doing more of the typing, so everything around it has to keep up,” said Matthew Prince, the co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.

The company said that merging Cloudflare’s global edge network and developer platform with the “modern web’s industry-standard toolchain” will allow the company to create a “frictionless” deployment stack from local code to the global network.

“Our mission at Voidzero has always been to eliminate the fragmentation and performance bottlenecks of the modern web stack,” said Evan You, the founder and CEO of Voidzero.

“Joining forces allows us to keep the Vite ecosystem neutral, open and vendor-agnostic, while giving us the resources and global infrastructure to supercharge the developer experience for millions of engineers worldwide.” The two companies have been collaborating since 2024.

The Voidzero team, including You, will join Cloudflare following the acquisition, but will continue to lead Vite and its other tools.

Alongside the acquisition, Cloudflare is also committing $1m to a Vite ecosystem fund to support independent maintainers and contributors, administered by Vite’s core team.

The Cloudflare Vite plugin alone has reached nearly 14m weekly downloads – or more than 10pc of Vite’s entire weekly volume – while AI usage at the company has grown by 600pc in a matter of months, according to Cloudflare.

The acquisition comes just a month after Cloudflare laid off 20pc of its workers, amounting to more than 1,100 employees, in preference for a slimmer, more AI-powered workforce.

The IT service provider, which claims to interface with around 20pc of the web, recently reported that agentic bots make up more than 57pc of internet traffic, with humans now only accounting less than 43pc.

“That happened faster than I predicted”, said Prince in a post on X. “Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic [is] growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the internet’s history.”

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Matthew Prince, World Economic Forum, 2023. Image: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting/Greg Beadle via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)