{"type":"post","id":"akamai-launches-akamai-inference-with-12-open-weight-be7d9b","slug":"akamai-launches-akamai-inference-with-12-open-weight-be7d9b","title":"Akamai launches Akamai Inference with 12 open-weight models and a WebAssembly Agent Sandbox","description":"Akamai has expanded its AI Cloud with Akamai Inference, an OpenAI-compatible managed service for open-weight and custom models, and Akamai Agent Sandbox, an isolated WebAssembly environment for agent execution.","retrieval_nugget":"Akamai has expanded its AI Cloud with Akamai Inference, an OpenAI-compatible managed service for open-weight and custom models, and Akamai Agent Sandbox, an isolated WebAssembly environment for agent execution. For AI builders, the launch joins model serving, data grounding, edge placement, and runtime controls in one infrastructure proposition.","published_at":"2026-10-27","updated_at":"2026-10-27","record_date":"2026-10-27","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["google"],"entities":["Akamai Technologies","Akamai AI Cloud","Akamai Inference","Akamai Agent Sandbox","Spin","Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra","gpt-oss-120b","Google Gemma 4"],"related_patterns":["agent-security-moves-to-runtime-boundaries","harness-architecture-outlives-model-choice"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Akamai is launching its own inference service and agent sandbox, adding 12 open-weight models and WebAssembly-based agent execution; the priors cover other inference services or comparisons, not this Akamai launch.","prior_refs":["memory:25a48078-8e49-83a7-a339-56f8a5ce56da","memory:2f75184f-b490-887b-a48f-c973e8e6bc33","memory:367450fa-24a1-883c-adcf-31bad5950ad9"],"source_url":"https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/27/akamai-expands-its-ai-cloud-platform-with-dedicated-inference-and-agent-execution-environments","source_urls":["https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/27/akamai-expands-its-ai-cloud-platform-with-dedicated-inference-and-agent-execution-environments"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:akamai-launches-akamai-inference-with-12-open-weight-be7d9b","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/akamai-launches-akamai-inference-with-12-open-weight-be7d9b/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/akamai-launches-akamai-inference-with-12-open-weight-be7d9b.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/akamai-launches-akamai-inference-with-12-open-weight-be7d9b.json"},"next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/google/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/google/","title":"Google","reason":"Explore the google topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/google.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/google.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/source-ledger.json","url":"https://newruntime.com/source-ledger.json","title":"Source Ledger","reason":"Inspect the public source evidence graph.","media_type":"application/json"}]}