DigitalOcean buys Katanemo Labs to build out agentic AI runtime layer beyond GPUs
DigitalOcean has acquired Katanemo Labs, a leader in agentic AI infrastructure, to enhance its Agentic Inference Cloud platform.
Katanemo Labs is focused on agentic AI infrastructure, and has an open-source project called Plano that facilitates building agentic systems into deployable units.
The acquisition enables DigitalOcean to expand its platform to support the operational layer of AI systems, helping developers build, run, and improve AI agents in production.
“The agentic era demands more than GPU capacity, it requires a new class of infrastructure primitives,” says Vinay Kumar, Chief Product and Technology Officer of DigitalOcean. “Katanemo Labs has spent years building exactly that: an AI-native data plane and specialized models that make multi-agent systems reliable, observable, and fast to deploy. With Katanemo Labs’s suite of products and advanced research, we are accelerating the path from prototype to production by giving developers the predictability and performance they need to scale with confidence.”
DigitalOcean will use Katanemo’s signals-based observability technology to provide better reliability and performance of the agent in production environments.
Users of the DigitalOcean marketplace will be able to take advantage of the GPU infrastructure, cloud services, and agentic primitives. This acquisition enables customers to build AI-native applications.
DigitalOcean says it does not see a significant impact on DigitalOcean overall financial results for 2026 as a result of the deal.
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