# DigitalOcean Gradient AI Platform adds image generation, knowledge-base auto-indexing, VPC security, and developer tools

DevFeed: [DigitalOcean Gradient AI Platform adds image generation, knowledge-base auto-indexing, VPC security, and developer tools](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/build-smarter-agents-with-image-generation-auto-indexing-vpc-security-and-new-ai-tools-on-digitalocean-gradienttm-ai-platform-19915.md>)

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Author: Grace Morgan

Published: 2025-10-02T07:12:50Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [DigitalOcean](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/digitalocean.md>)

Topics: [AI Platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-platform.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Digital Ocean](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/digital-ocean.md>), [text-to-image](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/text-to-image.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [stable-diffusion](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stable-diffusion.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Image](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/image.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>)

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## AI overview

DigitalOcean announces new Gradient AI Platform capabilities, including programmatic image generation through the Serverless Inference API, Knowledge Base Auto-Indexing, security controls, and additional developer tools for building AI applications.

## Source excerpt

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. Expanding capabilities for Gradient AI Platform 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. Image Model Support 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 - OpenAI compatible using the image generation endpoint. For code examples and setup instructions, check out the DigitalOcean Gradient AI starter kit on GitHub. Unified billing - Image generation charges appear on your DigitalOcean account alongside other services. Developer-first workflow - Direct API access without requiring UI-based tools or self-hosting. Enterprise authentication - Use Model Access Keys for secure access. With this capability, you can create images using natural language prompts for projects such as content generation, marketing assets, product imagery, and more. Get started with Image Model Support -> Knowledge Base Auto-Indexing Keep your agents up to date without the manual work. With auto-indexing, new and u