DigitalOcean announces launch of Inference Engine

DigitalOcean (DOCN) announced the launch of its Inference Engine. The announcement comes ahead of DigitalOcean Deploy, the company’s conference for AI builders, where it will unveil their full, integrated platform and new capabilities live. “Most teams building agentic systems today make a single model decision and apply it uniformly across their agentic workflows. They default to a frontier model and pay the generalization tax: premium prices and higher latency for work that often does not require the most expensive closed source model. Inference Router is the essential AI middleware that removes that tax by intelligently matching requests to the right model based on task, context, and developer-defined preferences. The result is a smarter operating model for inference – one that gives developers more control over quality, speed, and cost while helping AI-native builders move faster and build more durable businesses on DigitalOcean.” – Vinay Kumar, CPTO, DigitalOcean