Summary
Cloudflare added hybrid search and relevance boosting to AI Search on April 16, giving developers more control over how retrieval results are found and ranked. The change strengthens AI Search as a configurable retrieval layer instead of a default-only managed index.
What changed
AI Search gained hybrid search and relevance boosting controls for result ranking.
Why it matters
Retrieval quality is a key bottleneck in production AI systems. These controls make AI Search more attractive to teams that need to tune relevance rather than accept out-of-the-box ranking behavior.
Evidence excerpt
Cloudflare says AI Search now supports hybrid search and relevance boosting, including BM25 plus vector fusion and configurable tokenization and keyword matching.