Agentic Cloud: Reinventing the Cloud with AI Agents

Agentic Cloud: Reinventing the Cloud with AI Agents What are AI agents? AI agents will transform businesses Agentic Cloud - AI agents transforming the cloud About the author Try DigitalOcean for free Related Articles Introducing langchain-gradient: Seamless LangChain Integration with DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform How to optimize your cloud architecture for business growth Choosing the Right DigitalOcean Offering for Your AI/ML Workload By Bratin Saha, Chief Product & Technology Officer Published: May 19, 2025 5 min read AI is shaping up to be one of the most transformational technologies of our lifetimes and will change how we live and work just like the PC, the internet, and the smartphone did. The launch of ChatGPT was a seminal moment in the evolution of AI, and since then, AI’s adoption has accelerated. According to “ The rapid adoption of Generative AI. Bick, Blandin, & Deming (2024 )”, AI is being adopted at twice the rate of the PC and internet at a similar point in their evolution. Not just adoption, the rate of innovation in AI has been faster than anything we have seen before. So where is AI headed? To answer this question, let us start by looking at how other transformational technologies have evolved throughout history. Take the Internet for example – it started with the infrastructure - with routers and network switches. But the true inflection point came with the emergence of platform capabilities, such as web browsers and HTML, which allowed people to build and use applications like search engines, e-commerce, and social media. If you look at the PC, microprocessors and memory and other infrastructure components came first. But what triggered the massive adoption was the creation of a platform – WinTel, which provided a standardized environment for developing and running PC applications. Same with the smartphones; the infrastructure started first with modems and cell towers, but it really took off when a platform enabled the creation and use of applications. AI will follow a similar IPA ( I nfrastructure -> P latform -> A pplication) model, with the innovation moving from Infrastructure (e.