Real-time AI Model Abstraction and Orchestration with Cloudflare Workers

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With Cloudflare Workers, you can build and deploy serverless code instantly to a global cloud network. By leveraging Workers for your AI model abstraction and orchestration, you will benefit from reduced latency since your code is running on Cloudflare's edge network, closer to your users.

Below is a Pulumi Python program that creates a Cloudflare Worker script and then sets up a route for that script, thus deploying the real-time AI model abstraction and orchestration service onto the Cloudflare Workers infrastructure.

To use this program, you will need to replace the placeholder strings for `zone_id`, `pattern`, `script_content`, and `account_id` with your actual Cloudflare Zone ID, the request pattern for which the Worker script should trigger, the content of the Worker script, and the Cloudflare Account ID, respectively.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_cloudflare as cloudflare

# Replace these variable values with your Cloudflare account details.
zone_id = "your-zone-id"  # The Zone ID for the domain you want the worker to be added to.
account_id = "your-account-id"  # The Account ID associated with your Cloudflare account.
script_name = "my-ai-worker"  # The name to give your Worker script.

# Define the Worker script content (you could read from a file, or define directly here).
# The content should contain the code for your AI model abstraction and orchestration.
script_content = """
addEventListener('fetch', event => {
  // Your AI model handling code here
  event.respondWith(handleRequest(event.request))
})

async function handleRequest(request) {
  // Logic to handle the request and apply AI model inference
  return new Response('Hello worker!', { status: 200 })
}
"""

# WorkerScript Resource: Represents the JavaScript code for your Cloudflare Worker.
worker_script = cloudflare.WorkerScript(script_name,
    name=script_name,
    content=script_content,
    account_id=account_id)

# WorkerRoute Resource: Specifies which URL patterns should activate the Worker script.
worker_route = cloudflare.WorkerRoute(f"{script_name}-route",
    pattern="example.com/my-ai-service/*",
    script_name=script_name,
    zone_id=zone_id)

# Output the Worker route, so we know the service endpoint.
pulumi.export("worker_url", pulumi.Output.concat("https://", worker_route.pattern))
```

Here's a breakdown of this program:

1. **Imports**: We are importing `pulumi` and the necessary `pulumi_cloudflare` package so that we can use Cloudflare's Provider and its resources.

2. **Account and Zone Configuration**: Configure your Cloudflare account by setting `zone_id`, `account_id`, and `script_name`. These will be used to configure the Worker script and route.

3. **WorkerScript Resource**: This defines the actual serverless code that will be running on Cloudflare's edge network. Here, we have a placeholder for the `script_content` where you would place your AI model code.

4. **WorkerRoute Resource**: This creates a route that triggers the Worker script when there is a request that matches the defined pattern. The pattern could be a specific path on your domain where the AI model should be invoked.

5. **Exports**: At the end, the program exports the URL where your worker route will be accessible. This makes it easy to know where to send requests for your AI model processing.

Please ensure that you have the `pulumi_cloudflare` provider configured correctly, and you have set up Cloudflare API tokens with appropriate permissions to manage resources in your account. Deploy this Pulumi program by running `pulumi up` after filling in the necessary details, and then test making requests to the outputted `worker_url` to see your real-time AI model in action on Cloudflare's edge network.