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DigitalOcean Launches Advanced Generative AI Platform

Announced at the Deploy 25 developer conference, the new DigitalOcean GenAI Platform empowers developers to easily integrate AI into business applications

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today, DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN), the simplest scalable cloud for growing tech companies, introduced its new GenAI Platform at the company’s developer conference, Deploy 25, hosted in Austin, Texas. The DigitalOcean 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 new 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 foundational models to support a number of real-world use cases such as document analysis, intelligent customer service, automated workflows, and interactive conversational agents, 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 us that is evolving with technology and making AI accessible for users,” said Bratin Saha, Chief Product and Technology Officer at DigitalOcean. “Generative AI is an evolving 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 expertise level.”

The GenAI Platform makes it simple to create use-case specific agents by bringing your contextual data to foundation LLMs offered by leading third parties. You can not only pull in unstructured data from files but also structured data from databases or APIs to augment your prompts and build rich Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows. With function calling, you can easily extend the capabilities of your agent with custom code without needing to spin up new processes. Additionally, with included guardrails, you can easily manage your agent’s responses, helping to filter out incorrect or inappropriate results. 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 options 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. These innovations will allow growing tech companies to harness their data and implement AI with ease. While select DigitalOcean customers experienced this platform late last year in a private preview, 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, model fine-tuning, and more.

To learn more about DigitalOcean’s GenAI Platform, visit our product page. Additionally, check out DigitalOcean’s YouTube channel for a replay of the 2025 Deploy sessions and to see the platform in action.

About DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is the simplest scalable cloud platform that democratizes cloud and AI for growing tech companies around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing and AI to allow builders to spend more time creating software that changes the world. More than 600,000 customers trust DigitalOcean to deliver the cloud, AI, and ML infrastructure they need to build and scale their organizations. To learn more about DigitalOcean, visit www.digitalocean.com.

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DigitalOcean Welcomes Cloud & AI Developer Community to Deploy 2025 Conference

DigitalOcean debuts vision for future of cloud, AI for digital-native businesses

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DigitalOcean, the simplest scalable cloud for growing tech companies, today kicked off its Deploy 25 customer conference in Austin, Texas bringing together the most passionate community of builders to share best practices, network, and experience DigitalOcean’s vision for the future of cloud computing and AI. The event features keynote presentations from DigitalOcean leadership and customers, the unveiling of new innovations in cloud and AI, as well as opportunities to learn from the rest of the DigitalOcean community.

“2024 was another monumental year for DigitalOcean, featuring groundbreaking product innovations, accelerated customer adoption, and the expansion of our technology and reseller partner programs,” said Paddy Srinivasan, DigitalOcean CEO. “We’re looking forward to connecting in-person with our customers and community at Deploy 25, and sharing more about our exciting innovations in generative AI as well as our core cloud computing platform. 2025 is an inflection point for the intersection of cloud and AI, and the updates that we’re introducing to our community this week will help our customers stay at the leading edge.”

GenAI Platform

Highlighting the announcements made at Deploy 2025 is the introduction of DigitalOcean’s GenAI Platform, a brand-new platform promising to be the one of the simplest solutions to create, deploy, and integrate agents for real applications. The new GenAI Platform gives customers everything they need to build their own AI applications, without the need for advanced expertise in AI or machine learning programming. Customers can easily and quickly build AI agents within DigitalOcean’s infrastructure by adding their data with pre-trained third party GenAI models, and seamlessly integrate those agents into a customer application via a secure endpoint or a chatbot plugin.

This platform will provide pre-built components like hosted third party LLMs, data ingestion pipelines, and knowledge bases, making it easier for our customers to create AI-powered applications without getting bogged down in complex infrastructure management.

For more details on the new offering, visit our product page.

Improved Resources for Hatch Startups

DigitalOcean has long been the preferred cloud platform for developers looking to build and run their startup businesses. To continue this cycle of growth within its startup community, DigitalOcean’s Hatch program is introducing new resources and benefits for select participating companies, including:

• Up to $100,000 in Compute Credits: Breathe a little easier with significant compute credits for qualified Hatch program participants that will help you experiment, develop, and scale for less.

• Up to 3 Months of Free GPU Usage: Qualified startups can hit the ground running with zero GPU costs for a limited period of time. Terms apply.

• Complimentary Premium Support: Get expert guidance when you need it most at no additional cost.

The program also features a unique go-to-market acceleration component, giving participants access to DigitalOcean’s marketplace of approximately 638,000 customers, co-marketing opportunities, and the chance to showcase their solutions at DigitalOcean’s premier developer events.

To learn more about Hatch, apply for your team to be part of the program, and see if you are eligible for the benefits outlined above, visit http://do.co/AIStartups.

Ongoing Product Innovations

In addition to the above announcements, DigitalOcean also introduced the following product innovations:

– VPC Peering enables customers to connect their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and establish seamless communication between resources hosted in those VPCs using private IP addresses, traversing through the DigitalOcean backbone.

– Global Load Balancers enable customers to distribute HTTP/s traffic across backend resources hosted in different DigitalOcean regions. These can be used by customers to increase their application availability, performance, and resilience by directing users to the nearest available resource helping to reduce latency.

– Internal Load Balancers enable customers to distribute regional HTTP/s/TCP/UDP traffic across resources within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using private IP addresses. This helps to enhance security by helping to ensure that internal workloads remain isolated from the public internet, making it ideal for applications requiring private communication.

– Droplet Autoscale Pools help ensure that the right resources are available to handle application workloads, scaling automatically to meet demand while helping to minimize costs.

– Bitbucket Support in App Platform enables customers to seamlessly connect their Bitbucket accounts and deploy apps directly from Bitbucket repositories.

– Flexible application management capabilities in App Platform help provide precise control (archive/restore in beta, maintenance mode, restart, command line access to the app containers) over app lifecycle.

– VPC-native DOKS Clusters makes Digitalocean Kubernetes VPC-native. VPC resources can communicate natively with Kubernetes pods in DOKS.

– DOKS now scales to 1000 nodes (beta) enabling SMBs to scale even more.

To join the DigitalOcean community at Deploy 25 or to watch online, register at https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy#register.

About DigitalOcean

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MediaTek Adopts AI-Driven Cadence Virtuoso Studio and Spectre Simulation on NVIDIA Accelerated Computing Platform for 2nm Designs

Latest Virtuoso Studio release and Spectre Simulator deliver a 30% productivity gain for MediaTek’s 2nm design flow compared to prior Virtuoso releases

Highlights:

• Virtuoso Studio advanced optimization enhances MediaTek’s efficiency by 30% by accelerating the design-centering process
• Spectre X Simulator on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs achieved up to 6X greater performance while maintaining accuracy
• MediaTek’s adoption of Virtuoso Studio’s layout routing and placement tools provides another 30% design productivity improvement

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that MediaTek has adopted the AI-driven Cadence^®Virtuoso^® Studio and Spectre^® X Simulator on the NVIDIA accelerated computing platform for its 2nm development. As design size and complexity continue to escalate, advanced-node technology development has become increasingly challenging for SoC providers. To meet the aggressive performance and turnaround time (TAT) requirements for its 2nm high-speed analog IP, MediaTek is leveraging Cadence’s proven custom/analog design solutions, enhanced by AI, to achieve a 30% productivity gain.

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To meet the aggressive performance and turnaround time (TAT) requirements for its 2nm high-speed analog IP, MediaTek is leveraging Cadence’s proven custom/analog design solutions, enhanced by AI, to achieve a 30% productivity gain. (Graphic: Business Wire)

“As MediaTek continues to push technology boundaries for 2nm development, we need a trusted design solution with strong AI-powered tools to achieve our goals,” said Ching San Wu, corporate vice president at MediaTek. “Closely collaborating with Cadence, we have adopted the Cadence Virtuoso Studio and Spectre X Simulator, which deliver the performance and accuracy necessary to achieve our tight design turnaround time requirements. Cadence’s comprehensive automation features enhance our throughput and efficiency, enabling our designers to be 30% more productive.”

Using the Virtuoso ADE Suite, MediaTek has integrated its own AI-powered optimization algorithm in its future product development workflow, improving its designers’ circuit design efficiency. Cadence’s Spectre X running on NVIDIA H100 GPUs delivers the same accuracy as Spectre X running on CPUs while delivering up to a 6X performance improvement for post-layout simulations of large, advanced-node designs.

“Improved performance and efficiency are key to advancing today’s complex chip design processes,” said Dion Harris, director of accelerated computing at NVIDIA. “With Cadence’s Spectre X running on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, companies like MediaTek can accelerate the verification of their complex post-layout designs, maximize analog circuit simulation performance and reduce time to market.”

MediaTek’s analog layout team has also adopted the Virtuoso Layout Suite device-level router for custom digital blocks in 2nm technology, significantly enhancing layout productivity. Additionally, MediaTek is leveraging AI and Virtuoso’s open platform to customize a prototyping placement and low power prediction flow, which provides another 30% design productivity improvement.

“MediaTek’s validation of our latest Virtuoso Studio release and Spectre X Simulator on NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform demonstrates that Cadence’s continued investment in enhancing our industry-leading custom design solutions and AI tools is a game changer for our customers’ most challenging 2nm designs,” said Vinod Kariat, corporate vice president and general manager of the Custom Products Group at Cadence. “Bringing the power of AI and GPUs to Spectre X enables MediaTek to solve its large-scale verification simulation challenges even more quickly, without sacrificing accuracy.”

Additional Resources

• Video: NVIDIA GPU Accelerated Spice Simulation via Cadence Spectre X Solution
• Blog: Spectre 24.1 Release Now Available
• Blog: Spectre Tech Tips: GPU Integration with Analog Circuit Simulation
• Training: Auto Place and Route (APR) for Virtuoso Studio – Device Level Training

About Cadence

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic systems design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality. Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications, including hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, mobile, aerospace, consumer, industrial and healthcare. For 10 years in a row, Fortune magazine has named Cadence one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. Learn more at cadence.com.

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To meet the aggressive performance and turnaround time (TAT) requirements for its 2nm high-speed analog IP, MediaTek is leveraging Cadence’s proven custom/analog design solutions, enhanced by AI, to achieve a 30% productivity gain. (Graphic: Business Wire)

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