Vercel Staff
August 7, 2026 - August 14, 2026
Top Highlights
- AI Gateway Production Index shows DeepSeek overtaking Google on volume as cost per token falls 13.6%, signaling a major shift in the AI inference landscape with multiple new models now available including Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash at 50% off, and updated DeepSeek V4 Pro weights.
- Vercel migrated the database behind every build from Redis to a new system while maintaining zero downtime, handling the state management for their build warm pool that processes millions of deployments—a impressive technical feat detailed in their engineering deep-dive.
- AI SDK introduces a harness layer that lets developers run established coding-agent runtimes like Grok Build through one unified interface, now supporting any Agent Client Protocol (ACP)-compatible harness so teams can switch between agent frameworks without changing application code.
Community Projects
- I made live app + GitHub security checks self serve for v0 apps. Bad idea?
- Agentcn | Installable AI Agents
- ShotLuma - Free & Open Source AppStore Screenshot Generator
Don't forget to visit the #showcase to see what else everyone is building
Weekly Leaderboard
Congrats to last week's leaderboard champions
Resources
- A sandbox without a network boundary is only half a sandbox
- DeepSeek overtakes Google on volume, cost per token falls 13.6%
- Everything hackable will get hacked
- How we migrated the database behind every Vercel build
- Building a software factory for AI SDK
- Inside the Vercel intern experience
Events
More Updates
- Vercel Container Registry repositories can now be made public
- Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox now available on Hermes Agent
- Grok Imagine Image 2.0 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
- Bun runtime for Vercel Functions now accepts Bun.serve as an entrypoint
- Simplified onboarding for deepsec
- Vercel Sandbox now runs on Vercel Managed Images
- LaunchDarkly is now available on the Vercel Marketplace
- Vercel Connect now supports CLI setup for 100+ connectors
- Enterprise Managed Users is now generally available
- Vercel Connect adds observability support
- Grok 4.6 now available on AI Gateway
- Free domain for one year, now for all Pro teams
- Set up coding agents in one command with AI Gateway
- Exa web search free through August 31 on AI Gateway and eve
- DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs updated weights on AI Gateway
- Exa joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace
- Use ACP-compatible harnesses with the AI SDK harness layer
- Grok Build is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
- One-click upgrade for deprecated Node.js versions
- Gemini 3.7 Flash now available on AI Gateway for 50% off
- GLM 5.2 free for eve agents through August 27 via Blackbox on AI Gateway