Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox extend Akamai Cloud’s ability to serve, run, and secure AI applications and agents from core to edge

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, access to their data, routing and governance, and, as agents begin to write and execute their own code, a hard boundary around what that code can reach. Most teams assemble those pieces from separate providers and secure the interaction points themselves. Akamai Cloud now delivers a connected AI environment, placed across a continuum of compute that runs from dense GPU and CPU clusters in core regions to more than 4,350 edge locations, and protected by the same security portfolio that defends many of the world’s largest online businesses.

“We have been implementing an AI infrastructure strategy based on the notion that AI inference will represent the majority of enterprise focus and investment. Our customers proved that thesis and pulled us further,” said Adam Karon, Chief Operating Officer and GM of Akamai Cloud. “They want to build, run, and protect AI on the same platform. Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox add the inference and execution layers that turn our AI infrastructure into a full AI stack, and our security portfolio protects every layer of it. Akamai is uniquely positioned to bring our scale and distribution to address scaling real-time inference and agentic workloads.”

Access models without operating the stack: Akamai Inference

Akamai Inference gives enterprises managed access to open-weight and custom models through OpenAI-compatible APIs, so existing applications move without rewrites. Customers choose serverless, pay-per-use inference or dedicated deployments. At launch, the catalog includes 12 open-weight models ranging from 8 billion to 2.8 trillion parameters, including NVIDIA^™ Nemotron 3 Ultra, OpenAI^™ gpt-oss-120b, and Google^™ Gemma 4, along with embedding models for retrieval-augmented generation.

Akamai Cloud provides access to managed databases and object storage, and seamlessly connects to private and public cloud platforms, so models can draw on enterprise data. Akamai Inference then handles the orchestration, model execution, and authentication. Requests run on the Akamai global network, which reduces latency, and helps to ensure high availability and consistent performance while maintaining predictable service levels. 

Give agents a place to execute: Akamai Agent Sandbox

AI agents are increasingly doing real work, from taking actions on a user’s behalf to writing and running their own code. Akamai Agent Sandbox gives developers a secure place to run both. Agents run on Akamai Functions, and the code they write runs in its own isolated environment, sequestered from the agent’s runtime. Delivered as an open source component of the Spin framework, Akamai Agent Sandbox uses WebAssembly isolation to set clear limits on compute, memory outbound connections, and system capabilities. Developers can deploy agents with confidence about where they run and what they can reach.

Agent isolation is converging on several models, from microVMs with snapshot and fork capability, to policy-enforced containers, to WebAssembly-isolated functions. Akamai allows developers to choose the architecture that fits their workload, with NVIDIA-accelerated and dedicated CPU infrastructure, managed Kubernetes, and Akamai Functions for serverless execution across edge and core. Akamai also plans to add capabilities that govern what agents can reach and what can reach them.

Build and tune on a broader GPU fleet: NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra today, Vera Rubin next

Akamai also expanded its dedicated GPU fleet to include NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPU clusters and is preparing its infrastructure to support the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform next year. Akamai’s GPU fleet now spans NVIDIA RTX PRO^™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition^® GPUs for low-latency inference and NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPU clusters for enterprises that want to build, tune, and self-host models on infrastructure they control. Akamai is also preparing its data centers to support the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform in 2027.

Each eight-GPU Blackwell Ultra node carries 288 GB of HBM3e memory per GPU, 2.3 TB in total, enough to hold frontier-class models. The Blackwell Ultra architecture targets the workloads driving that memory demand: test-time scaling, chain-of-thought reasoning, and long-context agentic work. GPU clusters give enterprises control over model versions and deprecation timelines, and run without rate limits or shared-tenancy queueing. They connect to the same data, networking, and security services as the rest of Akamai Cloud.

“Enterprises should not have to choose between speed and control when they put AI into production,” said Jon Alexander, Senior Vice President of Cloud Technology at Akamai. “Some teams want to ship an AI feature this quarter on a managed platform. Others need dedicated GPUs to run frontier-class open models on their own terms. Every team running agents needs a boundary around the code those agents write. Akamai Cloud now supports all of them on one platform, with security and resilience built in.”

Availability
Akamai Agent Sandbox (via Spin SDK) and Akamai Inference are available in beta. Akamai Inference beta includes serverless deployment options. Contact Akamai Sales for NVIDIA B300 GPU clusters availability.

About Akamai

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This press release contains statements that are not statements of historical fact and constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements about Akamai Inference Cloud, its anticipated capabilities, scalability, performance, global deployment plans and the expected benefits to Akamai, current and prospective customers and end users. Each of the forward-looking statements is subject to change as a result of various important factors, many of which are beyond Akamai’s control, including, but not limited to: Akamai's inability to achieve the expected performance or benefits of Akamai Inference Cloud; Akamai’s capabilities failing to meet expectations, including due to defects, security breaches, delays in performance, challenges in leveraging NVIDIA's technologies, or other similar problems; effects of competition, including pricing pressure and changing business models; changes in customer or user preferences or demands; macroeconomic trends and uncertainties, including industry volatility, the effects of inflation, fluctuating interest and foreign currency exchange rates, supply chain and logistics costs, constraints, changes or disruptions; defects or disruptions in Akamai’s or NVIDIA's products or IT systems, including cyber-attacks, data breaches or malware; changes to economic, political and regulatory conditions in the United States or internationally; and other factors that are discussed in Akamai’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K, subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements contained herein are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, Akamai disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

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