In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, AI has moved from research labs to everyday tools with stunning speed. I wanted to share my perspective, not only as a CTO at Vercel, but as an engineer who's seen a few revolutions over the past 30 years.

Grep is extremely fast code search. You can search over a million repositories for specific code snippets, files, or paths. Search results need to appear instantly without loading spinners. Originally built with Create React App (CRA) as a fully client-rendered Single-Page App (SPA), Grep was fast—but with CRA now deprecated, we wanted to update the codebase to make it even faster and easier to maintain going forward. Here's how we migrated Grep to Next.js—keeping the interactivity of a SPA, but with the performance improvements from React Server Components.

The AI SDK powers incredible applications across the web, and today we're announcing the Chat SDK—a best-in-class, production-ready template for building conversational AI applications like ChatGPT or Claude artifacts.

Securing web applications is core to the Vercel platform. It’s built into every request, every deployment, every layer of our infrastructure. Our always-on Denial-of-Service (DoS) mitigations have long run by default—silently blocking attacks before they ever reach your applications. Last year, we made those always-on mitigations visible with the release of the Vercel Firewall, which allows you to inspect traffic, apply custom rules, and understand how the platform defends your deployments. Now, we’re introducing Protectd, our next-generation real-time security engine. Running across all deployments, Protectd reduces mitigation times for novel DoS attacks by over tenfold, delivering faster, more adaptive protection against emerging threats. Let's take a closer look at how Protectd extends the Vercel Firewall by continuously mapping complex relationships between traffic attributes, analyzing, and learning from patterns to predict and block attacks.

Last week, we published CVE-2025-29927 and patched a critical severity vulnerability in Next.js. Here’s our post-incident analysis and next steps.

The AI SDK is an open-source toolkit for building AI applications with JavaScript and TypeScript. Its unified provider API allows you to use any language model and enables powerful UI integrations into leading web frameworks such as Next.js and Svelte.

Personalization works best when it’s intentional. Rushing into it without the right approach can lead to higher costs, slower performance, and poor user experience. The key is to implement incrementally, with the right tools, while maintaining performance. When personalization is implemented effectively, it drives real business results, returning $20 for every $1 spent and driving 40% more revenue. Let's look at what personalization is, how to implement it correctly, and why Next.js and Vercel achieve optimal outcomes.

Fluid compute is Vercel’s next-generation compute model designed to handle modern workloads with real-time scaling, cost efficiency, and minimal overhead. Traditional serverless architectures optimize for fast execution, but struggle with requests that spend significant time waiting on external models or APIs, leading to wasted compute. To address these inefficiencies, Fluid compute dynamically adjusts to traffic demands, reusing existing resources before provisioning new ones. At the center of Fluid is Vercel Functions router, which orchestrates function execution to minimize cold starts, maximize concurrency, and optimize resource usage. It dynamically routes invocations to pre-warmed or active instances, ensuring low-latency execution. By efficiently managing compute allocation, the router prevents unnecessary cold starts and scales capacity only when needed. Let's look at how it intelligently manages function execution.

When Next.js introduced Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) in 2020, it changed how developers build for the web. ISR combines the speed of static generation with the flexibility of dynamic rendering, enabling sites to update content without requiring full rebuilds. Vercel has supported ISR from day one, making it easy for teams at The Washington Post, Algolia, and Sonos to serve fresh content while keeping page loads fast.

The AI SDK is an open-source toolkit for building AI applications with JavaScript and TypeScript. Its unified provider API allows you to use any language model and enables powerful UI integrations into leading web frameworks such as Next.js and Svelte.

In our previous blog post, we introduced Hive as Vercel’s low-level compute platform, powering all of our builds. However, some builds come with unique security requirements. For these, Hive integrates seamlessly with Vercel's Secure Compute, which enables teams to securely connect with their backends through private connections without compromising performance. Since moving Secure Compute to Hive, provisioning times have dropped from 90 seconds to 5 seconds and build performance has improved by an average of 30%, delivering both speed and reliability for even the most sensitive workloads.

The AI SDK is an open-source toolkit for building AI applications with JavaScript and TypeScript. Its unified provider API allows you to use any language model and enables powerful UI integrations into leading web frameworks such as Next.js and Svelte.