Dropbox plans to acquire object storage specialist Tigris Data and introduces DBX Agent Cloud for companies building AI applications.
Dropbox wants to use the acquisition of Tigris Data to grow into AI infrastructure for companies and developers. Tigris provides globally distributed object storage for AI workloads, which lets developers manage data across clouds without being locked into a single provider. According to Ashraf Alkarmi, co-CEO of Dropbox, the company wants customers to choose for themselves how they use AI, while keeping control over their content.
DBX Agent Cloud
DBX Agent Cloud is a storage and data layer for companies that build AI applications and AI agents. The offering starts with S3-compatible object storage, which companies can buy separately and use with tools and applications built for Amazon S3.
Ovais Tariq, co-founder and CEO of Tigris, says his customers rely on Tigris to keep their applications running. With Dropbox’s experience, he says, Tigris can support larger workloads.
Dropbox also wants to add file system capabilities and content processing later. Content processing turns documents, images, audio and video into usable input for AI. The file system gives applications and agents a fixed place to manage files across tasks and sessions.
AI on existing files
Customers describe in Dropbox what they want to achieve. Dropbox searches for the relevant content, proposes a plan and carries out the actions after approval. It can look up information, summarise folders, compare versions, draft documents, edit PDFs and images, transcribe recordings and adjust video clips.
Dropbox works within existing permissions and keeps a log of its actions. Customers can review changes and undo supported actions. They can also switch AI models during a session and work on their Dropbox files in ChatGPT, Claude and Muse without having to upload them again each time.
The new Dropbox experience has been rolled out to more than 70,000 teams. The first phase applies to eligible Standard and Advanced teams in the US, the UK and Australia, in English. Dropbox plans broader availability in 2027. The company has not yet announced a date for Belgium or a price for DBX Agent Cloud.