Akamai was supposed to be old internet infrastructure.
CDNs. Caching. DDoS mitigation. The plumbing behind the web.
A leading frontier model provider just committed $1.8B over 7 years to their cloud platform. Largest customer deal in company history. Stock jumped 20%+.
Not a one-off: February had a $200M AI deal the market mostly ignored. Now it's connecting the dots.
Inference needs distributed compute. AI still runs on physical infrastructure — not all of it fits inside hyperscaler walls.
The market spent two years pricing chips.
Now it's starting to price the network.
$AKAM #AI
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