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

DevFeed: [DigitalOcean at NVIDIA GTC 2026: Building the AI Factory for the Agentic Era](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/digitalocean-at-nvidia-gtc-2026-building-the-ai-factory-for-the-agentic-era-19862.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/building-ai-factory-for-agentic-era-nvidia-gtc>)

Author: Vinay Kumar, DigitalOcean Chief Product & Technology Officer

Published: 2026-03-16T20:35:55Z

Content type: release

Language: en

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

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [Nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [model-deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-deployment.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [NemoClaw](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nemoclaw.md>), [OpenClaw](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openclaw.md>), [OpenShell](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openshell.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [announce](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announce.md>), [autonomous](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomous.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [digitalocean](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digitalocean.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [nemoclaw](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nemoclaw.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [openclaw](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openclaw.md>), [openshell](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openshell.md>), [product-updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-updates.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>)

## AI overview

DigitalOcean announces an expansion of its AI inference capabilities in partnership with NVIDIA. The article describes an AI Factory for production AI workloads, including agentic workflows, OpenClaw deployment, NemoClaw, and the OpenShell runtime.

## Source excerpt

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. The Proven Home for AI 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. DigitalOcean and NVIDIA are also working together on NVIDIA NemoClaw, an open source stack that simplifies running OpenClaw always-on assistants, more safely, with a single command. The NVIDIA OpenShell runtime offers a secure environment to run autonomous agents and open source models, then deploy seamlessly to DigitalOcean. Investing in the "AI Factory": Deep Cloud & Inference Integration Why is DigitalOcean uniquely positioned to win in this new marketplace? We are investing deeply to integrate traditional cloud primitives with our state-of-the-art