Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) is one of the best rising AI stocks to buy now. On March 3, 2026, Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced that it would deploy thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to expand its global distributed cloud infrastructure. The company said the move is aimed at creating one of the world’s most widely distributed AI platforms, built for AI research and development, fine-tuning, post-training optimization, and inference workloads across its network.

Akamai said the platform is designed to reduce latency and data egress challenges associated with centralized data centers by routing inference workloads to optimized compute resources across its network. The company cited a MIT Technology Review figure saying 56% of organizations see latency as the main barrier to deploying AI at scale. Akamai said its distributed approach is intended to support use cases where fast response times matter, including physical and agentic AI applications.

The company said the deployment will support dedicated GPU clusters for inference, localized fine-tuning for privacy and regional compliance needs, and post-model training on proprietary data. Akamai also said its platform combines NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, and BlueField-3 DPUs with its cloud and edge network, which spans more than 4,400 locations worldwide.

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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) is a cybersecurity, cloud computing, and content delivery company that helps businesses secure applications, protect data, and deliver digital experiences through its global network and distributed cloud platform.

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