Vercel Staff
October 9, 2026 - October 16, 2026
Top Highlights
- Vercel Drives introduces persistent storage for AI agents, allowing them to maintain files and state across different environments, runtimes, and compute configurations as their work evolves.
- Python is now generally available on Vercel as a first-class language, enabling developers to build full-stack applications with native Python SDKs alongside JavaScript frontends in a unified deployment workflow.
- Vercel Daemons enters public beta, enabling long-running background processes that pull and execute work from queues, databases, or third-party systems without requiring an HTTP server.
Community Projects
- Vizz.fm: a real-time music visualizer built with Next.js, Three.js and the Web Audio API
- Verceltics: an open-source iPhone, iPad and Android app for your Vercel projects
- nothing pedometer interaction
- GPTmail: keeping FastAPI mail permissions and approval state outside the runtime
Don't forget to visit the #showcase to see what else everyone is building
Weekly Leaderboard
Congrats to last week's leaderboard champions
Resources
- Findings from the $1M Vercel Sandbox challenge
- Python on Vercel is now generally available
- Backends on Vercel: Python, containers, and Daemons
- Introducing Vercel Drives: persistent storage for agents
- Vercel for Enterprise
- Open weight takes 71.5% of tokens and 23% of spend
- Vercel Ship 2026 recap
Events
- This Week
- Next Week
More Updates
- Deployment Storage billing begins for existing Pro teams
- New Pro teams now default to 30-day deployment retention
- Agents can now buy domains with the Vercel CLI
- Muse Wonder now available on AI Gateway
- Gemini 4 Argon now available on AI Gateway
- Repository checkout and Git LFS downloads are now faster
- MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash now available on AI Gateway
- Drama 3 now available on AI Gateway
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available on AI Gateway for free
- Amazon S3 joins the Vercel Marketplace
- TypeSafe AI's Jev 1.14 is now available on AI Gateway
- Python on Vercel is now generally available
- MCP Events support in Vercel Connect is now in public beta
- Vercel Connect adds Enterprise-Managed Authorization
- Bring Your Own Cloud on AWS is now generally available
- Vercel Drives is now generally available
- Cat Jam is now available in stealth for free on AI Gateway
- Vercel Connect now supports Secure Compute
- Muse Spark Open now available on AI Gateway
- Liquid AI's d1-ultra now available on AI Gateway
- Vercel Daemons is now in public beta
- Introducing Token Pass