Introducing Gradient: DigitalOcean’s Unified AI Cloud

Introducing Gradient: DigitalOcean’s Unified AI Cloud Why DigitalOcean Gradient? What’s Included What You Can Expect What’s Next Get Started Today About the author Try DigitalOcean for free Related Articles Announcing OpenAI gpt-oss Models on the DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Build smarter AI agents: new tools now available for the DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Introducing GPU Droplets accelerated by NVIDIA HGX H200 By Bratin Saha Updated: July 30, 2025 3 min read At DigitalOcean, we’ve always focused on delivering simple, powerful infrastructure that helps digital native enterprises build and scale their applications. Over the past year, we’ve extended that commitment into the AI space by investing in compute, tooling, and workflows that make it easier to build with AI from the ground up. We believe that to truly unlock the value of AI, developers need more than just infrastructure, they need an integrated experience that spans the full development lifecycle. That’s why we’re bringing together GPU infrastructure, intelligent agent development, and pre-built AI applications into one cohesive platform. Today, we’re taking the next step in that journey with the introduction of DigitalOcean Gradient, our unified AI cloud. It gives you everything you need to train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI workloads—not just as isolated components, but as a seamless, full-stack platform purpose-built for modern AI development. As our AI portfolio has grown, we’ve recognized the need for a dedicated identity that reflects the scale and ambition of what we’re building. The name DigitalOcean Gradient captures both the technical roots of machine learning and the philosophy behind our platform. In model training, gradients guide each step of learning—adjusting weights, reducing error, and moving toward better outcomes. In the same way, DigitalOcean Gradient is designed to guide developers from idea to production, with the right tools, abstractions, and infrastructure at every stage. Whether you’re experimenting with foundation models, building intelligent agents, or deploying production workloads at scale, DigitalOcean Gradient is your end-to-end AI cloud. With DigitalOcean Gradient, we’re unifying our AI offerings under one umbrella to make them easier to discover, adopt, and scale: DigitalOcean Gradient Infrastructure: Building blocks like GPU Droplets, Bare Metal GPUs, vector databases, and DO optimized software that helps improve model performance and infrastructure scale out.