Vercel Weekly (2026-07-27)

[amyegan]

July 17, 2026 - July 24, 2026

Vercel Weekly - July 27, 2026

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Top Highlights

• You can now drop to deploy from the Vercel homepage without Git, the Vercel CLI, or any local setup.
• Python cold starts on Vercel just got 2x faster (dropping from 2.8s to 1.3s for median-sized functions) thanks to build-time bytecode compilation now included in function bundles.
• AI Gateway now supports streaming transcription, allowing you to stream audio as it’s captured and receive real-time transcript updates instead of waiting for complete files—perfect for live captioning and voice input applications.

Community Projects

• Tryeve // an agent runtime for Eve
• Next.js 16.3 (preview) for dummies - instant navigations, and the PR we didn’t merge
• We built Terse AI - A way to build automations with your coding agent efficiently
• Interactive context engineering blog
• Mobile Gaming Portal Built with Next.js & Deployed on Vercel

Don’t forget to visit the Showcase to see what else everyone is building

Weekly Leaderboard

Congrats to last week’s leaderboard champions

1. @ryux1
2. @edward-roshan
3. @abhivarde

Resources

• Introducing the new Vercel Agent
• How Searchable ships customer-requested features in 30 minutes on Vercel

Events

• This Week
  • Understanding AEO: how agents talk to your website
  • Vercel Ship: Sydney
  • Build your AI marketing team with eve
  • Vercel Office Hours: Build your agent
• Next Week
  • Community Session: Building a team of marketing agents with eve
  • Next-gen Shopify commerce with Vercel
  • Agent workshop: Building Agents with eve
  • Vercel Office Hours: Build your agent

More Updates

• Purge your Remote Cache’s build and CI artifacts
• Configure where run state lives in Vercel Workflows
• Service tiers now available on AI Gateway
• Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are now available on AI Gateway
• Laguna S 2.1 is now available on AI Gateway
• Vercel MCP now supports purchases
• Vercel Connect adds 100+ preset connectors
• Python function bundles now include precompiled bytecode
• Extend eve agents with installable extensions
• AI Gateway now supports streaming transcription
• Vercel MCP can now deploy code
• Ling 3.0 Flash is now available on AI Gateway
• GitHub tools are now an installable eve extension
• Inspect feature flag history with Vercel CLI
• Connect to and manage Sandboxes from the dashboard
• Evaluation metrics for Vercel Flags

[abhivarde]

thanks for the feature small update, tryeve’s now built on 14 ▲ Vercel products, added Vercel Connect too.