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MemoAIMusic & audio

MemoAI is an AI-powered audio-to-text tool that supports localized processing, eliminating the need to upload data and ensuring privacy and security. It can efficiently transcribe YouTube videos, podcasts, and local audio/video files (such as MP4, MP3, AAC, M4A, etc.) into text, while offering core features like multilingual translation, speaker diarization, real-time subtitles, and floating notes—making it ideal for meeting minutes, interview transcription, content learning, and more.

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KiroCoding & development

Kiro is an AI engineering tool for developers that organizes requirements into specifications, architectures, and tasks, generates code via agents, and supports the entire workflow—from planning to code review—through property-based testing, execution memory, and integration with development tools.

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JAXModels & infrastructure

JAX is a Python numerical computing library designed for accelerators, specifically tailored for high-performance array computations and large-scale machine learning. It efficiently executes the same code across multiple hardware backends, including CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs.

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AI ShortWriting & content

AIS ALERT MANAGEMENT AND SHARED PLATFORM, QUICK COMMAND FOR MULTIPLE SCENARIOS

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Open DesignDesign & 3D

OpenDesign is an open-source design workspace that can connect to local programming agents, use built-in model keys, or leverage cloud-based models, enabling the creation and editing of prototypes, web pages, presentations, and graphics within a design system; local software is free, while model services incur fees.

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EvoMapAgents & automation

EvoMap is an infrastructure designed for the reuse of AI agent experiences. It organizes reusable strategies and repair assets with validation records via the GEP protocol, offering market- and quality-based ranking to help different agents discover, evaluate, and inherit existing capabilities.

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AssemblyAIMusic & audio

AssemblyAI is a speech AI platform for developers, offering pre-recorded, real-time, and short-form synchronous transcription APIs. It enables the building of voice-based applications by integrating capabilities such as speaker identification, emotion analysis, chapter and summary extraction, as well as speech agent functionality, dictation, and sensitive information processing.

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闪剪Video & animation

FlashCut is an AI-powered creation platform for voice-over and short-video marketing. It can generate finished videos with voiceovers, subtitles, and visuals from text, offering digital human customization, photo-to-digital-human conversion, live-stream clipping, and intelligent editing. It also provides APIs and branded mini-program solutions for businesses.

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ClipDropImages & editing

Clipdrop is a suite of AI-powered image creation and editing tools, covering background removal, local cleanup, image enlargement, upscaling, relighting, text removal, and background replacement. It allows users to process images directly in the browser and also provides developers with an API for integrating these capabilities into their applications.

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ElicitKnowledge & research

Elicit provides semantic search, research report generation, literature screening, and data extraction for scientific research. It enables traceable answers within source materials and organizes evidence through a literature library, research agents, and ongoing tracking workflows, making it ideal for advancing from initial problem exploration to systematic reviews.

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2026-11-14
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Token Pass now includes $150 in tokens for $30/month

Vercel Token Pass now offers $150 in monthly tokens (up from $80) for $30 per team per month, applicable to featured open-weight models via AI Gateway such as Kimi K3, Kimi K3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Credits reset each billing cycle with no rollover; once exhausted, requests using standard keys fall back to the team's AI Gateway balance, while Token Pass-scoped keys cease without overage charges. Available as an Early Access add-on for Pro teams with limited availability and a waitlist. Connect via the Vercel CLI command 'vercel token-pass' or use a Token Pass API key if supported. Subscribe through the AI Gateway dashboard.

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2026-11-13
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Parallel Decisions now available on AI Gateway for free

Parallel Decisions Fast is now available on AI Gateway at no cost until November 23, 2026. It searches the live web to answer questions about companies, products, policies, and other dynamic information, providing probabilities and cited evidence. The model supports boolean, choice, and score question types, with related questions sharing context and evidence in a single request. It can be used to enrich CRM records, verify claims, check eligibility, or route leads. The model name is 'parallel/parallel-decisions-fast', requiring no separate Parallel account. Citations include source URLs, optional titles, and excerpts, applicable to the entire request. Applications can act on high-probability answers and route uncertain ones for review. Requests are tracked in AI Gateway logs and spend budgets.

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Vercel Sandbox starts up to 4x faster

Vercel Sandbox startup times have improved significantly outside the Washington, D.C. (iad1) region by leveraging regional caching for reused image data, reducing initialization time by up to 75% in Paris and from 3.5s to 1.05s in Seoul, with smaller gains in regions closer to the origin due to shorter distances.

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Kimi K3.1 Pro is now available in Token Pass

Token Pass, Vercel's Early Access subscription for Pro teams, now includes Kimi K3.1 Pro, Moonshot AI's most advanced model for coding and agentic workflows featuring vision, tool use, and a 1M context window. For $30 per team per month, users receive $80 in monthly credit for coding agents via AI Gateway, with zero data retention on requests. The subscription also offers access to other models like GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, with additional models forthcoming.

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2026-11-12
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Workflow SDK 5: built for production

Vercel's Workflow SDK 5 introduces end-to-end encryption for workflow payloads, regional data residency for improved latency and reliability, and significant performance enhancements including fewer queue hops, incremental replay, and WebSocket streaming. The update supports secure, durable workflows across multiple regions, enables zero-configuration encryption on Vercel, and delivers up to 25× faster execution in benchmarks. It also adds features like searchable run attributes, in-flight cancellation, and expanded framework integrations, with a Python SDK now in beta.

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WTF are evals? How to test agents and the software they use

Agents interact with software through a funnel similar to humans: Discovery, Selection, Access, and Success. To measure whether agents complete user tasks correctly, end-to-end (E2E) evaluations are essential. These evaluations assess the full sequence of steps an agent takes, ensuring outcomes meet user requirements. Using frameworks like Harbor, developers can design tasks with defined environments, verifiers, and known-good solutions, then run trials across variants to measure success rate, pass@k, pass^k, efficiency, time, and cost. Analyzing traces reveals root causes of failures, enabling targeted improvements. Iterative evaluation helps catch regressions, test changes, and guide product development, turning evaluations into ongoing infrastructure for building better agent-driven products.

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Vercel Sandbox now supports managed npm credentials

Vercel Sandbox now enables installation of private npm packages using team-shared environment variables, supporting custom registries like GitHub Packages and JFrog Artifactory. By passing { npm: true } in sandbox creation, credentials are securely managed without exposing tokens, as authentication is handled via a firewall. Users must update the Sandbox SDK or CLI to the latest version to use this feature.

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Gemini 4 Hydrogen now available on AI Gateway

Gemini 4 Hydrogen, succeeding Gemini 3.8 Flash, is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, offering improved performance in agentic coding, knowledge work, and tool use with enhanced reliability in following instructions, formatting, and task boundaries. It supports longer engineering tasks, better-researched documents, and stronger grounding to reduce unsupported claims. The model can be used via the 'google/gemini-4-hydrogen' identifier in supported tools after setting up the Vercel CLI. AI Gateway provides a unified API for model access, usage tracking, cost management, and advanced configurations like routing rules and budgets, with no markup or platform fees.

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Inkling 2 Small now available on AI Gateway

Inkling 2 Small, a multimodal reasoning model supporting coding agents, visual understanding, and professional knowledge work, is now available on AI Gateway. It accepts text and image inputs and produces text output, enabling extended coding tasks, tool use for information gathering, document generation, and visual analysis including reading text in images, interpreting charts, and inspecting interfaces. The model can be used via the Vercel CLI with the identifier 'thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small' and integrated into tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. AI Gateway offers a unified API with features such as usage tracking, cost monitoring, retry configurations, failover, performance optimization, custom reporting, Zero Data Retention, budget controls, and routing rules. Pricing reflects provider rates with no markup or platform fees, including for Bring Your Own Key requests.

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2026-11-11
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Gemini Decision 1 now available on AI Gateway

Google's Gemini Decision 1, a multimodal decision model supporting text, images, audio, video, and PDFs, is now accessible via AI Gateway. It provides Boolean probabilities, choices, and scores for tasks like request routing, policy checks, tool filtering, and result ranking without generating output tokens. Supported through the AI SDK, TypeSafe-compatible API, and Decisions API, with PDF, audio, and video inputs available in AI SDK 7. Decision calls are logged and counted toward budgets alongside other model requests.

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2026-11-10
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Gemini 4 Carbon now available on AI Gateway

Gemini 4 Carbon, a model designed for complex software engineering, agentic work, and cybersecurity defense, is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway with a 50% discount through November 30, 2026. It features a 1M-token context window, enhanced capabilities in coding, full-stack development, scientific reasoning, and vulnerability detection, along with improved multi-step planning and collaboration under ambiguous requirements. The model can be accessed using the identifier 'google/gemini-4-carbon' in supported tools after setting up the Vercel CLI. AI Gateway offers unified API access, usage tracking, cost management, and performance optimizations, with no markup or platform fees, including for BYOK requests.

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Vercel Sandbox snapshot creation is now up to 10x faster

Vercel Sandbox has improved snapshot creation speed by up to 10x, with median time dropping to under 0.4 seconds from 4.4 seconds, and restore speed improving by 50% to 250ms at p50. The enhancements leverage the Vercel Hive Snapshot (VHS) format with more efficient data indexing, enabling parallel read and write operations and faster restoration of both base images and user data. Persistent sandboxes now automatically snapshot upon session end and resume from the latest snapshot by default, using the new format for all new snapshots while existing ones retain the previous format.

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2026-11-09
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Decision models take 26% of requests; Anthropic now wins new teams 2:1

In November 2026, decision models accounted for 26% of all AI Gateway requests and 0.53% of total spend, with adoption highest among high-volume teams—70% of those processing over 10 billion tokens monthly used a decision model. Voice model usage rose 2.6 times since July, reaching 11% of paid teams. OpenAI and Anthropic now serve nearly equal shares of paid teams, but Anthropic gained more new teams (2:1), while OpenAI’s share of gateway spend increased by two-thirds since December. Over half of language-model requests went to models less than two months old, reflecting rapid model turnover with a median half-life of six weeks. In October, Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 became the top model by spend, and image and video model usage reached record levels, with OpenAI’s GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst leading image spend and ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 leading video spend.

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Claude Fable 5.2 now available on AI Gateway

Claude Fable 5.2, designed for open-ended technical tasks, is now available on AI Gateway with improved coding, reasoning, and vision capabilities. It operates as an orchestrator or advisor, supports model fallbacks for cybersecurity classifier rejections, requires data retention (no Zero Data Retention), and can be accessed via the AI SDK, APIs, or integrated tools like Claude Code and Cursor. AI Gateway offers unified API access, cost tracking, failover options, and pricing transparency without markup.

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