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DigitalOcean report finds widening gap between companies adopting agentic AI and those falling behind
BROOMFIELD, Colo., February 04, 2026--DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN), the Inference Cloud for production AI, today released its Currents report, finding that while businesses are increasingly leveraging AI for problem-solving and efficiency, fully autonomous agentic deployments remain early-stage, and AI spend has shifted from training to inference.
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