Since February, Vercel blocked 148 billion malicious requests from 108 million unique IP addresses. Every deployment automatically inherits these protections, keeping your workloads secure by default and enabling your team to focus on shipping rather than incidents. Our real-time DDoS filtering, managed Web Application Firewall (WAF), and enhanced visibility ensure consistent, proactive security. Here's what's new since February.

The Vercel AI Gateway is now available for alpha testing. Built on the AI SDK 5 alpha, the Gateway lets you switch between ~100 AI models without needing to manage API keys, rate limits, or provider accounts. The Gateway handles authentication, usage tracking, and in the future, billing.

Experimentation, A/B testing, and feature flags serve as essential tools for delivering better user experiences, ensuring smoother rollouts, and empowering teams to iterate quickly with confidence. We're making it easier to bring flags into your workflow with:

The Vercel AI Accelerator is back. This year, we'll work with 40 teams building the future of AI. Over six weeks, participants get the tools, infrastructure, and support to create next-generation AI apps. Applications are open now until May 17.

The Vercel Marketplace adds new integrations from Sentry, Checkly, and Dash0. You can now use the tools you already trust to monitor, measure, and debug your apps. No custom setup. No change to how you build or deploy. These tools connect directly through the Vercel Marketplace with integrated billing, single sign-on, and access to provider dashboards, giving you deep visibility without the setup overhead.

Vercel provides the tools and infrastructure to build AI-native web applications. We're partnering with xAI to bring their powerful Grok models directly to Vercel projects through the Vercel Marketplace—and soon v0—with no additional signup required. To help you get started, xAI is introducing a new free tier through Vercel to enable quick prototyping and experimentation. These Grok models now power our official Next.js AI chatbot template with the AI SDK. This is a part of our ongoing effort to make using AI frictionless on Vercel.

When I started Vercel, my vision was simple: make building for the web more accessible and more powerful. That belief has fueled Vercel’s growth, empowering developers to bring their biggest ideas to life. Today, we’re welcoming Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, former Chief Business Officer at Stripe, as Vercel’s Chief Operating Officer to help further this mission. Vercel is building the foundation to power the next billion developers. Achieving this vision requires strong leadership and operational excellence. As COO, Jeanne will lead our go-to-market function.

Every second, Vercel blocks attacks before they reach your applications—keeping businesses online and developers focused on shipping, not security incidents. Vercel’s security capabilities combine real-time DDoS mitigation, a powerful Web Application Firewall (WAF), and seamless SIEM integrations to provide always-on protection without added complexity. Here’s what happened in the last quarter.

While dedicated servers provide efficiency and always-on availability, they often lead to over-provisioning, scaling challenges, and operational overhead. Serverless computing improves this with auto-scaling and pay-as-you-go pricing, but can suffer from cold starts and inefficient use of idle time. It’s time for a new, balanced approach. Fluid compute evolves beyond serverless, trading single-invocation functions for high-performance mini-servers. This model has helped thousands of early adopters maximize resource efficiency, minimize cold starts, and reduce compute costs by up to 85%.

Tremor is an open source library built on top of React, Tailwind CSS, and Radix. It consists of 35 unique components and 300 blocks that can be copy-pasted to build visually rich and interactive dashboards. The Tremor community has seen impressive growth with over 16,000 stars, 300,000 monthly downloads, and 5,500,000 installs to date. Today, Tremor and its cofounders Severin Landolt and Christopher Kindl are joining Vercel’s Design Engineering team where they'll be working on UI components for the Vercel Dashboard, v0, and more. This acquisition strengthens our commitment to open source and providing developers with the best tools for building exceptional user interfaces.

Last week at AWS re:Invent 2024, the Vercel team met with thousands of builders in the Developer Solutions Zone, celebrated v0's launch on AWS Marketplace, and hosted hundreds of customers and partners with various event activations. Now, we're taking our AWS Partnership further: Vercel has been selected for a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS—to deliver the next generation of AI-enabled developer tooling and experiences. This collaboration underscores the value of Vercel and AWS together as a one-stop shop for teams building AI experiences.

Grep allows developers to quickly search code across over 500,000 public git repositories. With the acquisition, founder Dan Fox will also be joining Vercel’s AI team to continue building Grep to enhance code search for developers.