What DigitalOcean shipped in May 2026

Dinesh Murthy

AI Disruptors: How the Next Generation of Business is Being Built

Now Available: DeepSeek-V4-Flash

OpenCode Now Supports DigitalOcean Inference Router for Intelligent Model Routing

DigitalOcean launched its Inference Router in Public Preview, enabling dynamic model routing for AI coding agents like OpenCode to optimize cost, latency, and quality. The integration allows OpenCode …

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, improving benchmarks and agentic task reliability while adding user-controlled effort levels, dynamic workflows for large-scale coding, and a 2.5× faster fast mode …

Scalable, Cost-Efficient AI: Introducing Unified Batch Inference on DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean introduced Batch Inference on its AI-Native Cloud, enabling high-volume asynchronous AI workloads at up to 50% lower cost than real-time inference. The feature supports OpenAI and Anthrop…

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DigitalOcean’s AI-Native Cloud, powered by NVIDIA HGX B300 GPUs, enabled Hippocratic AI’s Polaris system to scale to 10 million patient calls with a 99.9% clinical safety score. The collaboration deli…

Technical Writing in the AI Age

Request-Based Autoscaling Is Now Generally Available on App Platform

DigitalOcean launched generally available request-based autoscaling on App Platform, enabling apps to scale automatically based on live HTTP traffic signals like requests per second and P95 latency. P…

Adil Hafeez

How We Built DigitalOcean Inference Router

DigitalOcean introduced Inference Router, an infrastructure-level tool that automatically routes LLM requests to the best-fit model based on task requirements, optimizing for cost, latency, or quality…

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Your Model Doesn't Matter. Your Infrastructure Does.

DigitalOcean introduced a unified AI inference platform featuring serverless inference with 50+ models, dedicated GPU options, and an Intelligent Router that dynamically selects models based on cost, …

United Republic of Tanzania Tax Information

DigitalOcean now charges 18% VAT to Tanzanian customers and requires 15% withholding tax for certain digital service payments to non-residents, effective since July 2023. Tanzanian businesses must wit…

Now Available: Kimi K2.6

What's New on DigitalOcean's Inference Engine

DigitalOcean added several new AI models to its Inference Engine, including Kimi K2.6, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, GPT-5.5, GPT Image 2.0, and Claude Opus 4.7. These models enable autonomous workflows, long-cont…

Powering the Inference Era: Inside the DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud

DigitalOcean unveiled the AI-Native Cloud, a five-layer platform purpose-built for AI inference and agentic workloads, shipping 15 new products at Deploy 2026. The stack spans silicon to agents, integ…

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Now Available: DeepSeek-V4-Pro Model

API Overview

DigitalOcean revised its API authorization approach, removing a previously announced breaking change that would have required users to recreate tokens. Now, existing tokens retain functionality withou…