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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 ·
Infra
Vercel Wants to Replace Your Feature Flag Tool
Vercel has launched its own feature flagging tool, built directly into its platform. This gives developers a native way to safely roll out new features and test changes, potentially replacing third-party services like LaunchDarkly.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Now Lets You Build Real-Time Apps
Vercel now supports WebSockets in its serverless functions, a long-requested feature. This allows developers to build real-time applications like live chats and collaborative tools directly on the platform, paying only for active processing time.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Unlocks 24-Hour Sessions for Developers
Vercel now allows its Sandboxes to run for up to 24 hours, a major increase from the previous five-hour limit. This change helps developers run complex, long-running tasks like large data processing and extensive testing.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
New AI Model Can Read an Entire Codebase
Vercel's AI Gateway now offers GLM 5.2, a new model with a massive 1 million token context window. This allows it to handle entire project-level engineering tasks, making it a powerful tool for developers.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Vercel Adds a Stop Button for In-Flight Workflows
Vercel's Workflow SDK now lets developers cancel long-running tasks while they're still in progress. This gives them more control over complex application processes and helps prevent wasted resources on jobs that are no longer needed.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Shifts to Per-Invocation Billing
Vercel is updating its pricing model for serverless function invocations, shifting from package-based billing to a per-unit system. The change affects Pro and new Enterprise customers and will take effect at the start of their next billing cycle, aligning costs more directly with actual usage.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Offers a Lighter Alternative to Electron
Vercel Labs has open-sourced zero-native, a new framework for building desktop apps. It aims to create smaller, more efficient applications by using native components instead of bundling a heavy runtime like Electron.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Add Secure Logins to Vercel Apps Faster
Auth0 is now on the Vercel Marketplace, letting developers add secure user authentication to their apps with just a few clicks. This simplifies a critical step for building modern web applications, especially for Next.js projects.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Vercel Adds New AI Model for Complex Code
Vercel's AI Gateway now supports Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code model. This gives developers a new tool for complex programming tasks, accessible through the same API they already use for other models.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Your AI Coding Assistant Just Got a Vercel Upgrade
Vercel has launched a new plugin for the AI coding assistant Grok. The tool now uses real-time context from your project, like file edits, to provide more accurate coding help based on Vercel's latest standards.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Next.js 16.2 offers major speed boosts
Vercel has released Next.js 16.2, a major update focused on performance. It delivers a 400% faster development startup and up to 60% quicker rendering. The release also introduces AI-assisted development tools, enhances Turbopack efficiency, and improves error reporting for a smoother developer experience.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
xAI Video Model Available on Vercel
xAI has released Grok Imagine Video 1.5, now available on Vercel's AI Gateway. The model generates video with synchronized audio from a single image. This version features improved audio quality, better prompt adherence, enhanced photorealism, and more consistent characters in longer sequences.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Vercel Introduces Secure Signed URLs
Vercel has introduced signed URLs for its Blob storage service. This feature allows developers to generate temporary, secure links for specific files. Each URL is scoped to a single action like uploading or downloading and has a configurable expiry of up to seven days, enhancing security.
Ashish Kale ·
AI
Vercel AI Gateway Adds Qwen
Alibaba's new multimodal AI model, Qwen 3.7 Plus, is now available on the Vercel AI Gateway. The model combines vision and language capabilities, allowing developers to build advanced agentic applications for tasks like coding, visual reasoning, and operating graphical user interfaces directly through the platform.
Neeraj Dhiman ·
Infra
Vercel now prevents memory build failures
Vercel has introduced Elastic Build Machines, a new feature that automatically monitors memory usage during deployments. It dynamically adjusts compute resources to prevent common out-of-memory (OOM) failures, improving deployment reliability and developer productivity by reducing the need for manual intervention.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Vercel Simplifies Microfrontend Alias Routing
Vercel has rolled out an update for microfrontend deployments. Alias and branch-assigned domains now fully inherit the routing configuration from the source deployment. This change simplifies the process of creating preview environments, ensuring aliased URLs behave exactly like the original deployment for developers.
Ashish Kale ·
Infra
Netlify CLI Upgrade Breaks Next.js Deploys
A recent update to the Netlify CLI, from version 24 to 26, is causing deployment failures for some developers. The issue appears to affect Next.js projects, where a key server handler file exceeds the platform's 250 MB size limit, breaking previously working CI/CD pipelines.
Ashish Kale ·