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Infra
Vercel Now Lets You Monitor Anything You Want
Vercel has launched custom monitors, letting developers create alerts for specific metrics like AI costs, performance, or API failures. This gives teams more precise, proactive control over their application's health and spending.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Just Made Your pnpm Builds Much Faster
Vercel has optimized pnpm installs, making them 14% faster on average for Pro users. The platform now reuses dependency verification checks across deployments, saving developers valuable time during the build process.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Lets AI Agents React to Any App
Vercel has launched public beta support for MCP Events, a standard for interoperable communication. This lets developers build AI agents and apps that can automatically react to events, like new messages or issues, from various collaboration tools.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel and AWS Simplify Cloud Storage for Developers
Vercel now lets developers create and connect Amazon S3 storage buckets directly from its dashboard. This integration streamlines setup, automatically handles credentials, and improves security by removing the need for long-lived secret keys.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Just Slashed Your Build Wait Times
Vercel has optimized its build process, making repository checkouts and Git LFS downloads significantly faster. The platform reports an average 20% reduction in the time it takes to prepare project files, accelerating CI/CD pipelines for developers.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Now Lets Your Code Buy Domains
Vercel's command-line tool now lets developers automate domain purchases. This update allows AI agents and scripts to search for, check, and initiate domain acquisitions, streamlining infrastructure management while keeping final approval with the user.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Vercel Now Lets AI Models Browse the Live Web
Vercel has integrated Browserbase's Search and Fetch tools into its AI Gateway. This allows developers to easily give any supported large language model real-time access to browse and retrieve information directly from the live internet.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Vercel Opens Its Integration Directory to Everyone
Vercel now allows anyone to submit their own services to its Vercel Connect integration directory. This change lets developers connect more tools to their projects, speeding up workflows without waiting for official Vercel-built connectors.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Now Shows Your Exact Deployment Costs
Vercel now displays billable duration and CPU minutes for each deployment. This gives developers and companies direct insight into their build costs, helping them optimize usage and manage their budget more effectively.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Why Developers Are Flocking to This New AI Model
A new AI model called Jev has become the fastest-adopted model in Vercel's AI Gateway history. It's gaining traction by offering developers a specialized tool for generating fast, cheap, and structured data outputs from AI.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Vercel Now Pauses Deployments to Stop Overspending
Vercel has extended its Spend Management tools to Enterprise customers. Teams can now set budgets that automatically trigger alerts or even pause production deployments to prevent unexpected cloud costs and control spending.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel's AI Can Now Use Your Private Code
Vercel's AI tool for building user interfaces, v0, can now use private code packages. This allows development teams to integrate their own internal design systems and component libraries directly into the AI-powered workflow for the first time.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Vercel Adds a New High-Speed AI Coder
Vercel's AI Gateway now includes GLM 5.3 FlashX, a high-speed coding model from Z.ai. It generates code at ~200 tokens per second, making it ideal for building faster, more responsive AI coding assistants and interactive tools.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Vercel Now Deploys Static Sites in Under a Second
Vercel now deploys static artifacts in under a second using its command-line tool. The platform automatically skips the build step for eligible files, drastically speeding up workflows for sharing prototypes, reports, and AI-generated pages.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Now Connects Tools Beyond Prod and Dev
Vercel now allows connecting marketplace tools to custom environments like 'staging' or 'QA'. This move gives development teams finer control over their CI/CD pipelines, enabling more sophisticated and secure testing workflows beyond the standard environments.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Your AI App Can Now Remember Its Users
Mem0 is now on the Vercel Marketplace, giving developers a simple way to add long-term memory to their AI applications. This allows apps to remember user preferences and context across different sessions.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Vercel Cuts Secure Build Wait Times By 64%
Vercel has cut the startup time for secure builds by 64%, reducing the average wait from 6.7 to 2.4 seconds. This change speeds up development cycles for teams needing enhanced security and static IP addresses.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
New AI Model Aims to Master Medical Tasks
inclusionAI has released Ling 3.0 Flash Sante, a powerful AI model specialized for medicine, on Vercel's AI Gateway. It features a large memory and is designed for complex healthcare reasoning, with a free trial available until October 4.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Vercel Teaches Its AI to Design With a Text File
Vercel is using a simple markdown file, `design.md`, to teach its AI coding agents how to build on-brand web pages. This novel approach helps maintain design consistency as AI becomes more integrated into development workflows.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Vercel Now Reroutes Python Traffic Without Redeploys
Vercel now lets developers change how traffic is routed to Python apps without a full redeployment. This new feature speeds up updates for popular frameworks like Django, Flask, and FastAPI by handling rules at the network edge.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Now Finds Bugs You Can't Reproduce
Vercel launched Always-on tracing, a new feature that continuously samples live user traffic. This helps developers debug real-world issues on production sites without needing to reproduce the bugs themselves.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Just Simplified Its Container Workflow
Vercel has launched new command-line tools for its Container Registry. This allows developers to manage, build, and push container images directly from their terminal, simplifying automated workflows and local development.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Deploy AI-Generated Code Faster With Vercel
Vercel now integrates with Cursor Origin, the repository system for the AI-native code editor. This allows developers to automatically deploy code written with AI assistance, streamlining the path from development to production for Pro customers.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Try a 1M-Token AI Coding Model for Free
Vercel is offering free access to Z.ai's GLM 5.2, a powerful coding model with a 1 million-token context window. The offer is available for developers using the 'eve' agent framework through Vercel's AI Gateway until August 27.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Vercel Gives Developers Free AI-Native Web Search
Vercel has integrated Exa's AI-native web search into its AI Gateway, making it free for all developers until August 31. This simplifies building AI applications that can access and understand real-time web data.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Vercel and LaunchDarkly Offer Instant Feature Flags
LaunchDarkly is now available on the Vercel Marketplace, letting developers add powerful feature flags to their projects with a single command. This integration automates setup, speeding up testing and safe feature rollouts for web applications.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Now Runs Your Bun Server Natively
Vercel now lets developers deploy Bun servers directly to its serverless functions, including support for WebSockets. This simplifies building real-time applications and improves the developer workflow by removing the need for framework wrappers.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Run AI Code Safely with Vercel Inside Hermes
The Hermes coding agent now integrates Vercel's AI Gateway and Sandbox. This gives developers secure access to over 200 AI models and a safe, isolated environment to run potentially risky AI-generated code commands.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Just Opened Its Container Registry Publicly
Vercel now allows developers to make their container repositories public. This lets any Vercel user pull and use images, simplifying distribution for open-source projects and public tools, a feature common on other major cloud platforms.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Vercel Adds Free AI Model With Giant Context Window
Vercel has added Ling 3.0 Tiny, a new AI model from Ant Group, to its AI Gateway. It features a massive 256K context window and is free to use for a limited time, offering developers a powerful new tool.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
AI
Vercel Built a Language for AI to Write Code
Vercel Labs has released an experimental programming language called Zero, designed for AI agents, not humans. This signals a future where developers manage AI that writes code, aiming for faster, more automated software creation.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Vercel Boosts Sandbox Compute Power Over Tenfold
Vercel has significantly increased the capacity of its Sandbox feature for Pro and Enterprise users. The update allows for 10,000 concurrent sandboxes and a tenfold increase in CPU allocation, enabling more complex, large-scale applications like AI tools.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Manage All Your AI Models Through Your AWS Bill
Vercel's AI Gateway is now on the AWS Marketplace, letting teams buy and manage access to hundreds of AI models directly through their AWS account. This simplifies billing and cost control for companies using multiple AI services.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Adds a Firewall to Guard Your Files
Vercel has launched its Web Application Firewall for Blob storage, available on all plans. This lets developers protect stored files like images and AI media from unwanted traffic, preventing high costs and security risks.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Unlocks 10x Scale for AI Coding Agents
Vercel has increased capacity for Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 coding model on its AI Gateway by 10 times. This allows developers to build more powerful, high-volume AI coding agents and run longer, more complex tasks.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Shopify and Vercel Team Up on Faster Storefronts
Shopify and Vercel are rebuilding Hydrogen, Shopify's framework for custom storefronts. The new version is runtime-agnostic, letting developers use popular tools like Next.js to build faster, more flexible e-commerce experiences on any platform.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Your Vercel Commitment Now Covers More Tools
Vercel now lets enterprise customers use their existing "Flexible Commitment" to pay for third-party services from its Marketplace. This simplifies billing and budget management by consolidating costs for tools like Supabase, Neon, and Redis.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Adds a Single Switch for Faster AI
Vercel's AI Gateway now has a unified "fast mode." This lets developers request the quickest available AI model from any provider with a single setting, simplifying development and improving application speed for users.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Vercel Adds AI Model with Double the Throughput
Vercel's AI Gateway now offers the GLM 5.2 Fast model, which runs with twice the throughput of other serverless options. This allows developers to build faster and more responsive AI-powered applications on the platform.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Find and Fix Workflow Bugs Faster on Vercel
Vercel has launched a redesigned trace viewer for its Workflows tool. The update helps developers debug complex processes more quickly by making it easier to search, zoom, and inspect each step of a workflow run.
Ashish Kale ·