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DigitalOcean unveils AI-Native Cloud platform at Deploy 2026 conference.

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DigitalOcean, Inc. launches Inference Engine.

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DigitalOcean unveils AI-Native Cloud platform at Deploy 2026 conference. ByJanakiram MSV, Senior Contributor. I cover emerging technologies with a focus on infrastructure and AI Apr 29, 2026, 01:59pm EDT DigitalOcean unveiled its AI-Native Cloud platform at the Deploy 2026 conference in San Francisco on April 28, marking a significant expansion of the cloud provider's offerings for production artificial intelligence workloads. The integrated platform spans five layers covering infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data and managed agents, and the company says it is already running production workloads at Higgsfield AI, Hippocratic AI, ISMG, Bright Data and LawVo. Five-Layer platform architecture. The AI-Native Cloud is built across five layers designed to work together. Managed Agents covers open agent harness support and secure sandboxes. Data and Learning brings PostgreSQL pgvector and Valkey capabilities. The Inference Engine provides serverless endpoints and an intelligent model router. Core Cloud handles Kubernetes and CPU/GPU compute. Infrastructure spans 20 global data centers with Nvidia H100, H200 and HGX B300 GPUs, AMD Instinct MI300X, MI350X and MI355X GPUs and a 400G RoCE RDMA fabric, according to the company. The platform targets three primary workload patterns. The first is cloud-native software-as-a-service products adding AI features. The second is...

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Alongside the platform announcement, DigitalOcean launched its Inference Engine with four core capabilities.

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