This white paper explores how the rapid growth of AI inference is transforming digital infrastructure and introducing the concept of the "agentic web," where intelligent AI agents collaborate to perform complex tasks in real time. It explains why traditional centralized cloud architectures struggle to support latency-sensitive AI workloads and presents a distributed edge infrastructure built around localized GPU resources, intelligent routing, and edge-native security. The paper describes Akamai Cloud for Inference's layered architecture, emphasizing low-latency inference, scalable AI operations, workload optimization, and distributed computing that brings processing closer to users. It also highlights real-world applications in media, video intelligence, and multimodal AI, illustrating ho

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