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- Vercel introduces virtual models on AI Gateway
Vercel announced virtual models on AI Gateway, per the company's official account.
- Vercel CI enters beta with Turborepo task skipping and agent-oriented tooling
Vercel introduces Vercel CI in beta on all plans: it intelligently skips tasks with Turborepo, claims 2-6x faster CI in internal repos, and is optimized for agents via Vercel MCP and CLI after nearly 8 million tasks.
- v0 adds artifacts for reports, charts, diagrams, and interactive HTML pages in chat
Vercel’s v0 account says v0 can now create artifacts—reports, charts, diagrams, and interactive HTML pages—that users create and edit inside chat by asking v0 to make an artifact.
- Vercel's v0 iOS app adds Browser Use annotations
Vercel says Browser Use annotations are now available in the v0 iOS app. The post gives no further details.
- Vercel open-sources durable-harness so coding agents like Claude Code and Codex survive crashes
Vercel released durable-harness, an open-source set of adapters that lets agent harnesses including Pi, OpenCode, Codex and Claude Code resume a turn after a crash, function timeout or redeploy. It logs each model and tool call to a durable backend so finished calls are not rerun. It can run on Vercel or be self-hosted with a backend such as Postgres; Vercel calls it experimental.
- Vercel Drives is generally available, giving Sandbox agents persistent file storage across runs
Vercel Drives is generally available for Vercel Sandbox on all plans, so agents can keep files on a drive that mounts into new sandboxes when the runtime or tools change. Drives default to 1 TiB, or 1 GiB on Hobby, with up to 16 TiB available, and forking a drive for parallel experiments is also generally available. Agents can share a drive read-only or continue work without copying the workspace between environments.
- Vercel's AI Gateway adds Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash for image generation and editing
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are now available on Vercel AI Gateway, usable through the AI SDK or AI CLI with one API key and no provider account. Both handle photorealistic images, text rendering and targeted edits, accept up to five reference images and output up to 1536 x 1536 pixels; MAI-Image-2.6 is meant for final assets and the Flash version for faster, cheaper iteration.
- Vercel's Guillermo Rauch shares agent and bot traffic stats across the Vercel network
Guillermo Rauch, Vercel's CEO, posted Vercel traffic stats. Across the entire Vercel network, 58.18% of traffic over the last 30 days is bot-originated, up from 32% in January 2024. More than 60% of deployments on Vercel are now agentic, up from about 3% in January 2026. Up to 83% of pageviews on Vercel's own documentation sites now come from agents.
- Vercel launches v0 for teams, letting teammates see and join each other's chats
v0 for teams lets users see what their teammates are working on, jump into their chats and build together.