AI news from Vercel: 18 updates. Every card links to the maker's own page.
Perplexity Decider V1.2 27B and Decider Flash V1.2 4B are available on AI Gateway.
Why it matters
Developers can use their results to route support tickets, flag damaged products or send uncertain decisions for human review.
Vercel Shop is generally available as an open source Next.js storefront template for Shopify, with machine-readable product pages and structured data.
Python is now a first-class language and runtime on Vercel.
Vercel Daemons is in public beta for long-running processes that pull work from queues, databases or third-party systems without an HTTP server.
Why it matters
Developers can package an application in a Dockerfile or Containerfile and add a daemons entry to a project configuration file.
Vercel Connect apps and agents can now subscribe to webhook events from compatible MCP servers in public beta.
Why it matters
Builders can make agents summarize new messages, review newly created issues or respond to document feedback.
Vercel Drives is now generally available for Vercel Sandbox.
Why it matters
Agent builders can mount the same drive in a new environment and continue work with the same files.
Token Pass runs through AI Gateway, letting teams switch between its included models using shared credit.
Why it matters
When a team's credit runs out, Token Pass requests stop until the next billing period.
Liquid AI's d1-ultra is now available on AI Gateway for classification, routing and scoring across text and images.
Why it matters
Builders can receive structured answers with probabilities and decide when to automate an action or request human review.
Vercel Drives is generally available for Vercel Sandbox on Hobby, Pro and Enterprise.
Why it matters
Agent builders can preserve workspaces or file-based memory across runs and share datasets, models, dependencies and build artifacts across sandboxes.
Vercel made Python generally available, added custom runtimes and system libraries to Functions containers, and introduced Daemons in public beta.
Why it matters
Backend teams can run pull-based background workers that stay running between jobs.
Vercel now automatically detects supported Python frameworks and configures their build and deployment.
Why it matters
Full-stack teams can share local development, preview deployments and production releases between Python backends and frontends.
Cat Jam is now available on AI Gateway as a stealth text model for coding and agentic tasks with low-latency inference.
Vercel Connect can now route provider requests through a selected network's dedicated static IP addresses for providers with IP allowlists.
Vercel Connect now supports Enterprise-Managed Authorization in public beta for apps and agents acting for signed-in users.
Jev 1.14 is now available on AI Gateway as a decision model that returns typed answers with probabilities instead of free-form text.
Why it matters
Software teams can use one parallel request for classification, routing, scoring and automated verification.
Fish Audio's Drama 3 text-to-speech model is in preview on AI Gateway with natural-language direction for voice performances.
MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash from Microsoft are now available on AI Gateway.
Why it matters
Builders can generate or edit images through the AI SDK or AI CLI with one API key and no provider account.
Find dated assistant changes, one table per assistant, in the tracker.