DigitalOcean Unveils the DigitalOcean GradientAI Platform, Bringing Simplicity and Scale to Digital Native Enterprises Building with AI

DigitalOcean GradientAI Platform enables customers to create AI applications with their own data by combining state-of-the-art foundation models to add generative AI capabilities like agent builder and serverless inference to their applications

BROOMFIELD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), the simplest scalable cloud for digital native enterprises, today announced the general availability of its DigitalOcean GradientAI™ Platform (previously known as GenAI Platform), a managed AI platform that enables developers to combine their data with foundation models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral and OpenAI to add customized GenAI agents to their applications. The DigitalOcean GradientAI Platform is a fully managed service where customers do not need to manage infrastructure and can deploy Generative AI capabilities in minutes to their applications.

Digital native enterprises are integrating generative AI to drive innovation and deliver new experiences for their users. However, today’s generative AI ecosystem remains highly fragmented, with tools and data sources distributed across multiple platforms and providers. With the DigitalOcean GradientAI Platform, all tools and data are available through one simple UI with integrations for storage, functions, and database all powered by DigitalOcean’s GPU cloud. This empowers customers to build AI agents that can reduce costs or streamline user experiences—without requiring deep AI expertise on their team.

The DigitalOcean GradientAI Platform is built with simplicity in mind to get GenAI-backed experiences into customer applications quickly. By leveraging retrieval augmented generation (RAG), customers can quickly and easily create GenAI agents for use within their applications. These agents offer powerful capabilities that can be enhanced through function routing to integrate with third-party APIs, and agent routing to connect with other GenAI Agents within the platform. Additionally, with Serverless LLM Inference, customers can integrate models from multiple providers via one API, with usage-based billing and no infrastructure to manage.

Organizations can customize GenAI agent responses by applying guardrails designed to block sensitive information from being shared and keep outputs appropriate and non-toxic. To maintain quality and build trust, customers can also run regular evaluations to confirm that updates lead to meaningful performance gains.

“We built DigitalOcean GradientAI because generative AI can be complex — and DigitalOcean has always focused on making the complex simple,” said Bratin Saha, Chief Product and Technology Officer at DigitalOcean. “With DigitalOcean GradientAI, we are lowering the barrier for developers and teams to build AI agents, all while keeping the developer experience front and center.”

“The future of business is human-led and agent-operated. Humans articulate goals, and fleets of autonomous agents can execute on those goals,” said Aaron Kettl, founder of Quikest. “With the DigitalOcean GradientAI Platform, I can easily set up all of my agents and integrate them into my product with very little code, and I can upgrade and switch models anytime, so my product gets better every time a new model rolls out.”

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