DigitalOcean at NVIDIA GTC 2026: Building the AI Factory for the Agentic Era

DigitalOcean at NVIDIA GTC 2026: Building the AI Factory for the Agentic Era The Proven Home for AI Agents Investing in the “AI Factory”: Deep Cloud & Inference Integration Purpose-Built AI Infrastructure: The Richmond Data Center A Frictionless NVIDIA Ecosystem Partnership Expanding the Open Source Model Catalog About the author Try DigitalOcean for free Related Articles Deploy Smarter with AI: Introducing App Platform Skills on DigitalOcean Native. NET Buildpack Support is Now Available on App Platform Supabase Template is Now Available on DigitalOcean App Platform By Vinay Kumar, DigitalOcean Chief Product & Technology Officer Published: March 16, 2026 3 min read A seamless path for builders: Start building on build. nvidia. com , Deploy to DigitalOcean The landscape of artificial intelligence has shifted from static models to dynamic, long-running agents. At DigitalOcean, our mission is to provide developers with a purpose-built, agentic, inference cloud for running AI in production—without the operational overhead or complex cost structures of traditional infrastructure. Today, at NVIDIA GTC 2026, we are excited to announce a massive expansion of our inference capabilities in partnership with NVIDIA. We are moving beyond basic infrastructure; we are building an AI Factory designed specifically to support AI builders and power the next generation of autonomous agents. DigitalOcean is rapidly becoming the dominant player and preferred deployment destination for agentic workflows. When the open-source agent OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) went viral, we recognized the market’s need for frictionless deployment. In under 36 hours, we shipped a production-ready 1-Click Droplet to our Marketplace. The results demonstrate our reach: OpenClaw has driven 43,000+ total deployments on DigitalOcean with over 11,000 active OpenClaw deployments in production today. Builders aren’t just deploying models; they are utilizing our ecosystem, expanding into adjacent services like Backups, Snapshots, and Gradient AITM Serverless Inference to support their agentic workloads.