Akamai Launches AI Inference Service and Agent Execution Environment
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bringing managed model serving and isolated execution for AI agents to Akamai Cloud, Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) today introduced two foundational products for its AI stack: Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox. With these additions, enterprises can build and tune their own or hosted open-weight models, ground them in their own data, run agents inside enforced boundaries, and secure the applications, agents, and infrastructure involved, all on one cloud platform with AI-optimized infrastructure. These capabilities mark the latest step in Akamai's AI strategy: giving enterprises the trusted global infrastructure and services required to serve, run, and secure AI applications and agents, close to the users and data they depend on. Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox now add managed services on top of that infrastructure - a foundation that has already secured multiyear contracts for Akamai Cloud collectively worth more than $14 billion. The momentum highlights how Akamai's ability to leverage both CPUs and GPUs - together with cloud storage, networking, and edge functions on its interconnected global network fabric - is quickly becoming the trusted foundation for customers to build, deploy, and operate AI workloads at scale. Enterprises moving AI into production need far more than models. They need serving infrastructure...
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