DigitalOcean has announced its acquisition of Katanemo Labs, Inc., a leader in agentic AI infrastructure. This strategic move is intended to enhance DigitalOcean's Agentic Inference Cloud by integrating Katanemo's specialized AI primitives and its open-source data plane software, Plano. By merging cloud infrastructure with an AI-native data plane and specialized models, DigitalOcean aims to provide a robust platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and manage reliable AI agents in production. As part of the acquisition, Katanemo Labs co-founder Salman Paracha will join DigitalOcean as Senior Vice President of AI, helping to steer the company's capabilities in the emerging agentic AI sector.
