Build Smarter Agents with Image Generation, Auto-Indexing, VPC Security, and new AI Tools on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform

Build Smarter Agents with Image Generation, Auto-Indexing, VPC Security, and new AI Tools on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Expanding capabilities for Gradient AI Platform Image Model Support Knowledge Base Auto-Indexing Enterprise-ready infrastructure VPC Integration Accelerating development Gradient AI Agent Development Kit (private preview) Gradient AI Genie (private preview) And much more to come About the author Try DigitalOcean for free Related Articles Announcing cost-efficient storage with Network file storage, cold storage, and usage-based backups Announcing per-sec billing, new Droplet plans, BYOIP, and NAT gateway preview to reduce scaling costs Storage that thinks for itself: Introducing Storage autoscaling, the newest feature for Managed Databases By Grace Morgan Updated: October 2, 2025 4 min read At Deploy London 2025, we shared the next chapter of the Gradient AI Platform. We’re making it easier for developers and businesses to build production-ready AI applications, whether you’re experimenting with your first agent or scaling an enterprise workload. Today, in that spirit, we’re introducing a new wave of features that expand what you can build with the Gradient AI Platform, give you greater security and control, and accelerate your development workflow. AI applications are becoming more multimodal and data-driven, able to work with text, images, audio, and other formats. With Image Model Support and Knowledge Base Auto-Indexing, these new Gradient AI Platform features make it easier than ever to give your agents a wide range of inputs and knowledge sources. You can now generate images programmatically using text prompts through Gradient AI Platform’s Serverless Inference API, powered by OpenAI’s gpt-image-1 model. This is the platform’s first non-text modality (with more coming soon), expanding our capabilities from text-only to include text-to-image generation. Text-to-image generation – Generate images directly via the Serverless Inference API. API integration – Use the existing inference endpoint ( inference. do-ai. run/v1/chat/completions ) for image generation. inference.