The $DOCN announcement worth seeing is not a model.
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The $DOCN announcement worth seeing is not a model. It is the Droplet bet, aimed at agents. 🦾 Fourteen years ago the core product was a $5 virtual machine, storage, and a network, on a bill one developer could read. Over 680,000 customers run on it today. Agents broke the simple bill. A useful run still wanted a sandbox here, tokens there, storage somewhere else, and six invoices to explain one job. Managed Agents puts that run back on infrastructure DigitalOcean already operates: the microVMs, the inference, the storage, and the tools. The harness stays yours. The invoice goes back to o
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