[Akamai: Expanding Global GPU Nodes to Hundreds Within the Next Year, Targeting 10-20 Milliseconds Latency] April 15 news, Li Wentao, Director of Cloud Computing Architecture for Akamai Asia-Pacific, stated during a media briefing that the company has already deployed NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell series GPUs on a large scale globally, currently covering over 130 countries and more than 4,400 edge nodes. Within the next year, GPU-enabled nodes will be expanded to hundreds, aiming to achieve AI inference response times of 10-20 milliseconds. Li Wentao mentioned that semantic caching technology can reduce repetitive inference costs by 50% to 80%, and for token outbound traffic, pricing is set at $0.005/GB. (Jiemian News)