Executive summary

Akamai Inference Cloud is a full-stack cloud platform that enables organizations to build, protect, and optimize AI-powered applications at the edge.

The platform is designed to support agentic systems that adapt to users, communicate with other agents, and act in real time.

Key features include NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, managed Kubernetes, vector databases, and AI-aware security.

The platform empowers three specific users: machine learning operations engineers, AI engineers, and agentic system architects.

Akamai Inference Cloud provides a reliable, secure, and scalable foundation for deploying advanced AI systems anywhere.

In 2017, a research paper quietly changed the course of technology. Attention Is All You Need introduced the Transformer architecture, a new kind of model for processing language and data that would soon underpin nearly every major advancement in artificial intelligence (AI).…