{"company":{"name":"Vercel","slug":"vercel","website":"https://vercel.com","category":"cloud-hosting"},"question":"What has Vercel shipped recently?","answer":"In the last 30 days, Vercel shipped 133 tracked updates. The most recent was \"Vercel adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 to AI Gateway with improved reasoning and coding\" on 2026-10-17.","window":{"days":30,"updateCount":133,"returned":50},"generatedAt":"2026-10-17T12:43:49.252Z","updates":[{"title":"Vercel adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 to AI Gateway with improved reasoning and coding","summary":"Vercel’s AI Gateway now supports DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, a minor update improving reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and image understanding. The model delivers faster task completion with shorter outputs, benefiting multi-step automation and repository-level coding. 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Node.js and Python functions are supported, with full control over IAM, networking, and VPC access.","date":"2026-10-15","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"product_launch","signalTypeLabel":"Launch","sourceUrl":"https://vercel.com/changelog/bring-your-own-cloud-on-aws-is-now-generally-available","publisher":"vercel.com"},{"title":"Vercel launches Token Pass for Pro teams with $80 monthly AI model credit","summary":"Vercel introduced Token Pass in early access for Pro teams, offering $80 monthly credit for AI models like GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 at $30 per month. The service integrates with AI Gateway, supports Zero Data Retention, and allows model switching via shared team credit. 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The model supports function calling, structured JSON outputs, and multiple reasoning effort levels, integrating with Vercel’s AI SDK, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs, and coding agents like Claude Code and fx.","date":"2026-10-15","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://vercel.com/changelog/cat-jam-is-now-available-in-stealth-for-free-on-ai-gateway","publisher":"vercel.com"},{"title":"Vercel adds TypeSafe AI's Jev 1.14 with image input and long-context support","summary":"Vercel now offers TypeSafe AI's Jev 1.14 on its AI Gateway, enabling image input for decision models and an experimental long-context mode for processing large documents or logs. The update expands AI Gateway's decision-model capabilities with structured, parallelized responses for classification, routing, and verification tasks.","date":"2026-10-15","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://vercel.com/changelog/typesafe-ais-jev-1-14-is-now-available-on-ai-gateway","publisher":"vercel.com"},{"title":"Vercel launches Drives for persistent storage in Vercel Sandbox","summary":"Vercel introduced Vercel Drives, a persistent storage solution for agents running in Vercel Sandbox, now generally available. Drives allow agents to maintain file state across different environments and sandboxes, enabling resumption of work without transferring workspaces. 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The update emphasizes reusable workspaces for resuming tasks, reusing intermediate results, and verifying earlier conclusions.","date":"2026-10-15","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://vercel.com/i/ai-agents-persistent-workspace","publisher":"vercel.com"},{"title":"Vercel adds Liquid AI's d1-ultra decision model to AI Gateway","summary":"Vercel integrated Liquid AI's d1-ultra multimodal decision model into its AI Gateway, enabling structured decision-making with calibrated probabilities for text and image inputs. 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Both models support photorealistic output up to 1536x1536 and allow up to five reference images for guided edits.","date":"2026-10-13","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"product_launch","signalTypeLabel":"Launch","sourceUrl":"https://vercel.com/changelog/mai-image-2-6-and-mai-image-2-6-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway","publisher":"vercel.com"},{"title":"Vercel publishes guide on governing employee-built AI apps and agents","summary":"Vercel released a detailed framework for governing employee-built AI apps and agents, emphasizing ownership, access rules, data controls, spending limits, and pre-deployment reviews. 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