Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is now supported on Vercel CDN
Vercel CDN has introduced support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), encrypting the Server Name Indication (SNI) in TLS handshakes to enhance privacy for domains using Vercel DNS.
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Inside the Vercel intern experience
Vercel’s winter internship program integrated 2023 interns into core engineering teams, where they shipped features used by millions, contributed to enterprise deals, and built systems adopted by major companies.
Exa joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace
Vercel has integrated Exa’s neural search engine into its Agent Marketplace, enabling developers to add real-time web search and research capabilities to applications with a single API key.
Gemini 3.7 Flash now available on AI Gateway for 50% off
Vercel’s AI Gateway now offers Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash at a 50% discount through December 31, 2026, with improved reliability and design-to-code capabilities.
Grok Build is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Vercel has integrated Grok Build into its AI SDK harness layer, enabling developers to switch between coding-agent runtimes without modifying application code.
Use ACP-compatible harnesses with the AI SDK harness layer
Vercel’s AI SDK harness layer now supports ACP-compatible harnesses via the new @ai-sdk/harness-acp package, expanding integration options beyond direct runtime adapters.
DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs updated weights on AI Gateway
Vercel’s AI Gateway now defaults to updated DeepSeek V4 Pro weights for the model ID deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro, with a new identifier deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 for explicit use.
Exa web search free through August 31 on AI Gateway and eve
Vercel’s AI Gateway now offers free access to Exa web search through August 31, integrating it as the default search tool for eve agents without requiring a separate Exa API key.
Building a software factory for AI SDK
Vercel introduced an AI-powered software factory for its AI SDK to automate issue triage, bug reproduction, and pull request handling while keeping human reviewers in control of final approvals.
Free domain for one year, now for all Pro teams
Vercel is expanding a free domain offer to all Pro teams, covering six top-level domains for one year, with automatic renewal at standard rates thereafter.
Grok 4.6 now available on AI Gateway
Vercel’s AI Gateway now supports Grok 4.6 from SpaceXAI, featuring a 500K token context window and multimodal input, with tiered reasoning levels and default high settings.
Set up coding agents in one command with AI Gateway
Vercel’s AI Gateway now lets developers route coding agents through a single command, centralizing API keys, billing, and observability while supporting over 200 models, including unsupported ones, with automatic...
How we migrated the database behind every Vercel build
Vercel migrated the state tracking for its build warm pool from Redis to DynamoDB to ensure durability, executing a phased live migration under production traffic with rollback capabilities.
Vercel Connect now supports CLI setup for 100+ connectors
Vercel has expanded its CLI support for Vercel Connect, enabling terminal-based setup for over 100 third-party service integrations, previously limited to dashboard configuration.
Everything hackable will get hacked
Vercel warns that AI-driven cybersecurity threats are escalating as offensive models like Kimi K3 emerge without safeguards, while defensive tools remain underutilized despite available frontier models.
DeepSeek overtakes Google on volume, cost per token falls 13.6%
DeepSeek surpassed Google in token volume in July, with its V4 Flash model leading at nearly a fifth of total tokens, while the average cost per token fell 13.6%. Open-weight models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 captured...
A sandbox without a network boundary is only half a sandbox
Vercel introduces a sandbox firewall to enforce network boundaries for untrusted code, addressing risks of data exfiltration and unauthorized access even when compute isolation is intact.
LaunchDarkly is now available on the Vercel Marketplace
LaunchDarkly has been added to the Vercel Marketplace, enabling developers to integrate feature flags into projects directly through Vercel’s Flags SDK.
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel’s AI Gateway now hosts xAI’s Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview, enabling structured visual generation and editing with consistent details across outputs.
Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox now available on Hermes Agent
Vercel has integrated its AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox with Hermes Agent, enabling cloud-based model inference and isolated command execution in microVMs.
Vercel Container Registry repositories can now be made public
Vercel has introduced public repositories in its Container Registry, allowing any Vercel user to pull images while maintaining read-only access and default privacy settings.
Give every agent in Herdr its own Vercel Sandbox
Vercel introduced isolated Sandbox environments for terminal coding agents via Herdr, enabling concurrent, machine-independent operations with safeguards and JSON-based automation.