Anthropic upgrades Claude Code Projects to run parallel AI workers
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Gemini 4 Hydrogen now available on AI Gateway
Gemini 4 Hydrogen, succeeding Gemini 3.8 Flash, is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, offering improved performance in agentic coding, knowledge work, and tool use with enhanced reliability in following instructions, formatting, and task boundaries. It supports longer engineering tasks, better-researched documents, and stronger grounding to reduce unsupported claims. The model can be used via the 'google/gemini-4-hydrogen' identifier in supported tools after setting up the Vercel CLI. AI Gateway provides a unified API for model access, usage tracking, cost management, and advanced configurations like routing rules and budgets, with no markup or platform fees.
Inkling 2 Small now available on AI Gateway
Inkling 2 Small, a multimodal reasoning model supporting coding agents, visual understanding, and professional knowledge work, is now available on AI Gateway. It accepts text and image inputs and produces text output, enabling extended coding tasks, tool use for information gathering, document generation, and visual analysis including reading text in images, interpreting charts, and inspecting interfaces. The model can be used via the Vercel CLI with the identifier 'thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small' and integrated into tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. AI Gateway offers a unified API with features such as usage tracking, cost monitoring, retry configurations, failover, performance optimization, custom reporting, Zero Data Retention, budget controls, and routing rules. Pricing reflects provider rates with no markup or platform fees, including for Bring Your Own Key requests.
WTF are evals? How to test agents and the software they use
Agents interact with software through a funnel similar to humans: Discovery, Selection, Access, and Success. To measure whether agents complete user tasks correctly, end-to-end (E2E) evaluations are essential. These evaluations assess the full sequence of steps an agent takes, ensuring outcomes meet user requirements. Using frameworks like Harbor, developers can design tasks with defined environments, verifiers, and known-good solutions, then run trials across variants to measure success rate, pass@k, pass^k, efficiency, time, and cost. Analyzing traces reveals root causes of failures, enabling targeted improvements. Iterative evaluation helps catch regressions, test changes, and guide product development, turning evaluations into ongoing infrastructure for building better agent-driven products.
Adobe’s AI experiments let you walk around in photos and interview your characters
Some of the most impressive tech that Adobe showcases at its annual Max conference each year is the experimental features it's developing, and the latest of those tools are being announced today: they can transform images into explorable 3D scenes, design AI characters by talking to them, and turn photo editing into a copy/paste process. […]
Gemini 4 Carbon now available on AI Gateway
Gemini 4 Carbon, a model designed for complex software engineering, agentic work, and cybersecurity defense, is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway with a 50% discount through November 30, 2026. It features a 1M-token context window, enhanced capabilities in coding, full-stack development, scientific reasoning, and vulnerability detection, along with improved multi-step planning and collaboration under ambiguous requirements. The model can be accessed using the identifier 'google/gemini-4-carbon' in supported tools after setting up the Vercel CLI. AI Gateway offers unified API access, usage tracking, cost management, and performance optimizations, with no markup or platform fees, including for BYOK requests.
Meet the Sad Wives of AI
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Wake me up when AI can...
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Claude Fable 5.2 now available on AI Gateway
Claude Fable 5.2, designed for open-ended technical tasks, is now available on AI Gateway with improved coding, reasoning, and vision capabilities. It operates as an orchestrator or advisor, supports model fallbacks for cybersecurity classifier rejections, requires data retention (no Zero Data Retention), and can be accessed via the AI SDK, APIs, or integrated tools like Claude Code and Cursor. AI Gateway offers unified API access, cost tracking, failover options, and pricing transparency without markup.
AI Gateway adds DeepSeek Search and Fetch tools
DeepSeek Search and DeepSeek Fetch are now accessible through Vercel's AI Gateway, enabling users to find relevant web pages and retrieve their content as Markdown using a single API key. These tools work with any model supporting tool calling, support fallback search options, and are available in AI SDK versions 6.0.321 (v6) and 7.0.160 (v7). Each search or fetch request costs $0.75 per 1,000 billable requests, with no charge for failed or empty results. Usage is tracked via AI Gateway, which also supports routing, retries, and failover configurations.
Chat SDK agents can now stream generative UI with json-render
Vercel introduces json-render, enabling Chat SDK agents to generate and stream interactive UI components as JSON specs, which are converted into platform-native cards (e.g., Block Kit on Slack, Adaptive Cards on Teams). The system uses a typed component catalog covering tables, charts, buttons, and more, eliminating the need for separate tools. It supports streaming updates with real-time edits every 500 ms, validates component specs against schemas, and enforces platform-specific message limits to prevent content degradation.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast now available on AI Gateway
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast, offering over 1,000 tokens per second, is now available via Fireworks' accelerated serverless endpoint on Vercel's AI Gateway. The model features a 1M-token context window and is optimized for interactive coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows. It is in public preview with no waitroom or session time limits. Developers can use it by specifying the model name in their code or through tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor after setting up the latest Vercel CLI. AI Gateway provides unified API access, usage tracking, cost management, and performance optimizations without markup or platform fees.
Ampersand from Humans& now available on AI Gateway
Ampersand, a model designed for group conversations, is now available for free on AI Gateway until November 13, 2026. Built on Z.ai's open-weight GLM 5.3 and trained via reinforcement learning in simulated long-term group interactions, Ampersand understands shared goals, manages disagreements, and decides when to contribute or remain silent. It supports actions like sending messages or passing, and can be integrated via the AI SDK, OpenAI-compatible API, or coding agents using the model name 'humansand/ampersand-v0.1'.
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now accessible via AI Gateway, enabling users to generate 3–15 second videos from text prompts using a single API key without needing a separate Google account. The model supports video generation with native audio, editing clips using up to six reference images, extending videos by 3–10 seconds per call (up to 30 seconds total), and refining outputs via previousInteractionId. Output resolutions include 360p, 720p, 1080p, and 4K in 16:9 or 9:16 aspect ratios. Videos can be retrieved via generateText or streamText in the AI SDK as MP4 files. AI Gateway offers unified API access, usage tracking, cost monitoring, retry configurations, failover, performance optimization, custom reporting, Zero Data Retention, budget controls, and routing rules, reflecting provider pricing with no markup or platform fees, including for BYOK requests.
Kimi K3.1 Pro now has more ZDR providers on AI Gateway
Kimi K3.1 Pro and its high-speed variant are now accessible through additional Zero Data Retention (ZDR) providers on Vercel's AI Gateway, expanding beyond Moonshot AI. The models feature a 1M-token context window, image input support, and enhanced capabilities in coding, 3D modeling, and financial analysis. Highspeed is optimized for low-latency interactive tasks like coding agents. Users can invoke the models via AI SDK, Chat Completions, Responses, Anthropic Messages APIs, or integrated coding agents. Enabling ZDR in gateway settings ensures requests only route to ZDR-compliant providers. Setup for tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor requires the latest Vercel CLI. AI Gateway offers unified API access, usage tracking, cost management, routing rules, and built-in reporting, reflecting provider pricing without markup and supporting Bring Your Own Key.
Introducing Images 2.6
Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
Diagnose Vercel CLI setup problems with vercel doctor
The Vercel CLI now includes the vercel doctor command, which diagnoses setup issues by checking CLI version and installation, login status, team affiliation, project linking, vercel.json configuration, and active incidents from the Vercel status page. It reports results as OK, Warning, Failed, or Skipped, and provides specific fix commands. The tool runs without requiring login or project linkage and supports JSON output via --json for integration with coding agents.
Flags Explorer redesigned for easier override sharing
Vercel has redesigned the Flags Explorer in the Vercel Toolbar to improve visibility and sharing of feature flags, now co-locating overrides, branch recommendations, and related actions. When a branch has overrides, teammates viewing the deployment are prompted with a dialog recommending those settings. The tool is available on all plans, with documentation available for getting started.
Tencent Hy4 now available on AI Gateway
Hy4, Tencent's latest AI model with vision capabilities, is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway at 50% off through December 31, 2026. It supports reasoning, tool calling, structured outputs, image input, and a 1M-token context window. Hy4 excels in detailed image analysis, complex chart reading, and computer use across command-line and graphical interfaces. It outperforms its preview version in instruction following, long-context handling, and deep research tasks. Users can access it via the model name 'tencent/hy4' in supported tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor after setting up the Vercel CLI. AI Gateway offers unified API access, usage tracking, cost management, and performance optimizations with no markup or platform fees.
LongCat 2.5 now available on AI Gateway
Meituan's LongCat 2.5 is now accessible via AI Gateway, featuring enhanced visual understanding, coding capabilities, and multi-step tool use for complex codebase and project management tasks. It supports text and image inputs with a 1M-token context window, enabling extended workflows in engineering tasks. The model can be used with tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor after setting up the Vercel CLI. AI Gateway offers unified API access, usage tracking, cost monitoring, and performance optimizations without markup or platform fees.