TLDR: DigitalOcean and fal have expanded their strategic partnership to make generative AI content creation, specifically image and audio generation, more accessible to startups and enterprises. This collaboration integrates fal’s high-performance multimodal AI models onto DigitalOcean’s Gradient AI Platform, leveraging DigitalOcean’s scalable infrastructure to empower a global developer community.
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – October 23, 2025 – DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN), a comprehensive agentic cloud provider, and fal, a prominent multimodal AI platform specializing in generative media, today announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to democratize access to generative AI content creation, particularly in image and audio generation, for a broad spectrum of startups and enterprises globally.
The core of this expanded alliance involves the integration of fal’s cutting-edge, high-performance models for image and voice generation directly onto the DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. This move is designed to empower DigitalOcean’s extensive community of builders and its more than 640,000 customers with advanced tools for generative AI.
Under the terms of the partnership, fal will host and operate hundreds of its AI models on DigitalOcean’s robust infrastructure. This arrangement is set to power a diverse range of applications, spanning creative endeavors and various enterprise use cases. The seamless integration of fal’s multimodal models marks a pivotal expansion of the DigitalOcean AI Ecosystem, enriching the suite of products and services available to companies building on the Gradient™ AI Agentic Cloud.
Gorkem Yurtseven, Chief Technology Officer at fal, expressed enthusiasm for the partnership, stating, “This partnership is a great catalyst for our mission to accelerate the future of AI-generated content. By offering our models on the Gradient AI Platform, we are putting the market’s most performant generative media tools directly into the hands of a global developer community to spark the next wave of innovation. In addition, knowing that our platform is hosted on DigitalOcean’s reliable, scalable infrastructure, fal can focus on building our high-performance generative media models.”
Wade Wegner, DigitalOcean’s Chief Ecosystem and Growth Officer, echoed this sentiment, highlighting the strategic intent behind the collaboration. “DigitalOcean’s partnership with fal exemplifies what the DigitalOcean AI Ecosystem is designed to do—provide developers access to advanced AI capabilities while simplifying the operational complexity of AI infrastructure,” Wegner commented.
This initiative underscores DigitalOcean’s commitment to making AI accessible and manageable for its core customer base, focusing on AI inference—the practical application of models in real-world scenarios. The company has been actively enhancing its AI offerings, including new Image Model Support for text-to-image generation and expanding its GPU infrastructure with NVIDIA HGX H200 systems and AMD Instinct MI325X GPUs.
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The partnership not only provides fal with access to a large and engaged developer community, accelerating the adoption and real-world application of its technologies, but also demonstrates how partners can leverage DigitalOcean’s reliable and scalable infrastructure to broaden access to advanced AI capabilities.
