DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DOCN) is one of the best rising AI stocks to buy now. On March 3, 2026, DigitalOcean said Workato’s AI Research Lab is using its platform to support the development of next-generation enterprise AI agents at production scale. The company said Workato moved its AI Labs workloads to DigitalOcean’s inference-optimized cloud, which is powered by NVIDIA Hopper GPUs.

According to the announcement, Workato recorded immediate gains on frontier models, including Llama-3.3-70B, after the shift. DigitalOcean said inference costs fell 67% to $0.77 per 1 million tokens, throughput rose 67% to 13,561 tokens per second per GPU, and time-to-first-token improved 77% to 1,455 milliseconds at high load. The company also said time-to-value was reduced from weeks to days, representing more than a twofold acceleration.

DigitalOcean said it worked with Workato to design and tune a distributed inference architecture on DigitalOcean Kubernetes and configured NVIDIA Dynamo to coordinate workloads across interconnected GPU clusters. The company said this setup reduced redundant computation, improved responsiveness under heavy demand, and gave Workato a 33% hardware price-performance advantage.

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DOCN) is a cloud infrastructure provider focused on simplifying deployment for developers, startups, and businesses. The company said its platform combines GPU infrastructure and core cloud services to support AI and broader production workloads, and that it serves more than 640,000 customers.

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