Akamai CEO Leighton Calls Anthropic an Ideal Partner
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A seven-year, $12 billion AI compute agreement between Akamai and Anthropic shows CDNs are repositioning as distributed inference clouds, not just content pipes. If you’re planning large-scale model deployment, multi-provider strategies now need to include edge networks alongside the big three clouds.
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