Akamai to build AI inference cloud in India: CEO

Global cloud and infrastructure leader Akamai Technologies is investing in building an AI inference cloud in India and plans to deploy Nvidia’s latest Blackwell chips by December-end, chief executive Tom Leighton told ET. An AI inference cloud is computing infrastructure that brings AI models closer to the edge and processes queries in real time.

“We’re seeing tremendous demand from India’s digital-first enterprises for faster, more secure apps and cloud-native workloads,” he said. “We are in the process of deploying the new Blackwell…