Akamai Technologies Inc. introduces **Akamai Inference** and **Akamai Agent Sandbox** to its AI Cloud platform, offering enterprises a managed environment for deploying AI workloads at the edge. The platform supports 12 open-weight models (e.g., Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 Ultra, OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b) and specialized embedding models for retrieval-augmented generation, integrating with Akamai’s managed databases. The **Agent Sandbox** provides isolated WebAssembly-based execution for AI agents, enforcing granular control over compute, memory, and network access. Akamai also expands GPU options, including Nvidia Blackwell Ultra clusters, and plans to add Vera Rubin GPUs next year.
Jim Cramer says AI-driven web traffic creates a growth opportunity for Cloudflare, Akamai Technologies, and Fastly, but calls Akamai the only buy at current prices. Akamai is building smaller data centers to process AI workloads closer to users, and Anthropic commits $11.6 billion for computing capacity over seven years. Cramer favors Akamai below 16 times expected earnings, while advising investors to wait on Cloudflare and Fastly because of their high valuations.
