DigitalOcean Launches Generative AI Platform

Austin, TX – January 22, 2025 – Today, scalable cloud provider DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) introduced its new GenAI Platform at the company’s biannual developer conference, Deploy, in Austin, Texas. The GenAI Platform allows customers to use foundational models from third party providers to build and deploy AI agents in minutes without the need for advanced expertise in AI or machine learning.

DigitalOcean’s GenAI Platform’s intuitive workflows meet customers wherever they are in their AI journey by allowing them to set up agents with access to robust data pipelines and multi-agent crews. Supporting everyone from AI beginners to seasoned experts, this groundbreaking platform positions DigitalOcean at the forefront of AI development by allowing businesses to build chatbot experiences with third-party foundation models to support document analysis, semantic search, and image generation with more use cases on the horizon. The platform is built to be framework-agnostic to allow for a seamless transition from creation to implementation.

“As AI continues to enhance business strategies, it is essential to have a partner like DigitalOcean that is evolving with technology and making it accessible for users,” said Bratin Saha, Chief Product and Technology Officer at DigitalOcean. “Generative AI is a challenging concept, but our team has worked tirelessly to create an easy-to-use platform that seamlessly integrates with our customers’ existing infrastructure and has a low barrier to entry for developers at any experience level.”

The GenAI Platform makes it simple to create use case-specific agents by bringing your data for context-aware agents. Structured data from databases or APIs can be easily integrated using function calling, ensuring your agents have access to accurate and up-to-date information. Additionally, guardrails make it easy to maintain reliability and prevent agents from providing incorrect or inappropriate responses. Support for private endpoints and an included chatbot interface makes launching these agents on your website straightforward, enabling you to deliver immediate value to your users.

“As a company that offers a holistic customer platform for plant and machine manufacturers, we explored a few GenAI solutions to help us create and manage large volumes of documentation for each customer’s plant,” said Florian Bauernfeind, Managing Director at Autonoma. “With DigitalOcean’s new GenAI Platform we are able to quickly create intelligent AI agents that understand each customer’s specific context and language – making it easy to read through pages of documentation and search through a variety of content via chatbot. As a company, we are really excited about DigitalOcean’s latest offering as we look to expand our own to transform our customer’s experience.”

As DigitalOcean continues to expand its AI strategy in 2025 and beyond, the GenAI Platform brings new resources and functionality for customers looking to iterate in a competitive marketplace. Driving these actions at the infrastructure layer allows growing tech companies to harness their data and implement AI with ease. While select DigitalOcean customers experienced this platform late last year with a small rollout, the GenAI Platform is available to all customers starting today, January 22, 2025.
Stay tuned as the DigitalOcean team continues to add exciting new features to the GenAI Platform, including support for URLs as a data source, agent evaluations for AgentOps and CI/CD pipelines, auto-indexing for knowledge bases, model fine-tuning, and more.