Vercel announced that TypeSafe AI’s Jev became available on AI Gateway on September 16. Jev is positioned for classifying, routing, scoring, and automating workflows, with the announcement citing substantially lower latency and cost than LLMs in its evaluations.

Vercel announced that Gemini 3.8 Live models became available on AI Gateway on September 15. The release expands the models available to developers through Vercel’s AI model-routing platform.

Algolia and Vercel announced a native AI Search integration for the Vercel Marketplace on September 10. Developers can provision and manage Algolia Search directly from Vercel, with OAuth-based setup, synchronized credentials, and unified billing through Vercel.

Vercel announced that Tako Search was available for free on AI Gateway through September 30. The tool combines curated data and live-web search, with filtering by domain or publication date and support for cited results.

FriendliAI announced that it is now available as a bring-your-own-key (BYOK) provider on Vercel AI Gateway. Existing Gateway users can route requests to FriendliAI without changing SDKs, using a Friendli API key.

Vercel made InclusionAI’s Ling 3.0 Flash Sante available for free through AI Gateway on September 4. The 124-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model is specialized for health and medical reasoning.

SAP Commerce Cloud and Vercel announced that they are working together to combine SAP’s commerce data and transaction processes with Vercel’s customer-facing web infrastructure and workflow. Vercel is also developing Next.js storefront templates for SAP Commerce Cloud, supported by Vercel’s delivery, scaling, deployment, and observability capabilities.

Firecrawl announced that it was live on the Vercel Marketplace as a native integration. The integration supports one-click installation, automatic API-key injection into the project environment, and billing through Vercel.

Exa announced a partnership with Vercel covering Vercel Eve, AI Gateway, and Agent Marketplace. Exa became available through Vercel AI Gateway for web search and through the Agent Marketplace for adding neural search to applications.

Vercel announced that applications hosted on its platform were protected against two critical Next.js vulnerabilities disclosed in the August 2026 security release. Vercel disabled AVIF optimization in its managed Image Optimization service, meaning hosted applications required no customer action.

Vercel published a customer story about Ora, an AI-agent benchmarking platform that runs on Vercel. Ora benchmarked Vercel's eve agent under the same conditions as other agent harnesses and uses eve as part of its own infrastructure.

Vercel announced that AI Gateway is generally available for production use. The service is designed to improve reliability when model providers fail, provide access to higher rate limits and new models, and give customers centralized visibility into model usage and costs.

Vercel introduced Vercel for Slack, bringing Vercel Agent into Slack conversations. Users can mention @Vercel to investigate incidents, review pull requests, and ship approved changes; the product entered public beta for Pro and Enterprise teams.

Vercel announced a two-week public HackerOne program focused on testing Vercel Sandbox isolation. The program offers up to $1 million in bounties for eligible security researchers, running from August 18 through September 1, 2026, or earlier if the reward pool is exhausted.

Scrums.com announced a partnership with Vercel to make Vercel's AI-native deployment infrastructure available through Scrums.com's Software Engineering Orchestration Platform. The offering will combine Vercel infrastructure with Scrums.com's engineering talent, AI agents, tools, and delivery operations, initially targeting businesses in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

xAI released Grok 4.6, a model focused on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work. It was made available through Grok Build, Cursor, the xAI API, and partners including OpenRouter, Vercel, and Cloudflare.

Human Behavior publicly reported a $5 million funding round to build its AI-native product analytics platform. The reported investors include Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and Vercel.

Cursor joined the multi-vendor Agent Plugins 1.0.0 initiative, an open standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers for AI agents. Cursor was named among the initial Technical Steering Committee’s core maintainers and was supported as a compatible client at launch.

Vercel announced the appointment of Amit Agarwal to its board of directors. Agarwal is the founder and CEO of Standard Template Labs and formerly served as president of Datadog; Vercel highlighted his enterprise-software and product-led-growth experience.