At Deploy 2026, we launched the DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud, a full-stack platform purpose-built for the inference and agentic era. Five layers. One open stack from silicon to agents.
This month, we're going deeper.
AI workloads break many assumptions the old clouds were built on. AI runs in loops. Agents think, then act, then think again. A single user task can span hundreds of thousands of tokens, traverse half a dozen tools, hit a knowledge base, write code, execute it, and persist state, all before returning an answer. Hyperscalers leave the integration to you. Inference-only providers sit on someone else's compute and stack their margin on top. GPU rental shops give you silicon, but not a system.
With the AI-Native Cloud, you don't need to wait in a hyperscaler queue behind a frontier lab. You don't need to glue together a Neo Cloud, an inference wrapper, and a vector database vendor. You don't need to compromise on openness, on economics, or on developer experience.
Read the full walkthrough from CPTO Vinay Kumar: Powering the Inference Era: Inside the DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud.
