Vercel Sandbox now support Custom Images
Vercel Sandboxes now supports custom images. Launching in public beta today, images allow Sandboxes to start with your own custom root filesystem. Images are pulled from Vercel Container Registry , so anything you docker push is immediately available.
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Analytical search (Public Preview)
Analytical search, an orchestration capability in Cortex Agents that enables analytical queries over large document collections, is now in Public Preview. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches retrieve a small number of passages, which limits their ability to answer questions requiring comprehensive analysis, such as counts...
MATCH_RECOGNIZE is now in Beta
Databricks SQL and Databricks Runtime now support the SQL:2016 MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause for row pattern recognition. Enable the Match Recognize preview in workspace preview settings . See MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause .
Lakehouse Real-Time (Beta)
Lakehouse Real-Time (Lakehouse//RT) is now in Beta . Lakehouse//RT is a serverless SQL warehouse type built for low-latency, high-concurrency workloads, delivering sub-second SQL read queries against Unity Catalog tables.
Gemini Omni Flash in public preview
Released gemini-omni-flash-preview, a high-performance multimodal model designed for high-speed video generation and conversational video editing. Using the Interactions API, you can generate 3--10 second videos at 720p from text descriptions or animate still images, and then conversationally edit and refine the outputs.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) is generally available
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image is a multimodal model optimized for ultra-low latency, cost-effective image generation and editing, now GA in the Gemini API.
[Launched] Generally Available: Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every agent team hand-assembles its own tool list to solve the same tasks, with no shared ar
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Vercel Agent has updated pricing
Vercel Agent pricing is changing. You no longer need to pre-load credits or manage a separate wallet for Vercel Agent. Instead of a $0.30 per-request fee, you now pay a Vercel Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens, plus provider inference costs at the underlying token rate. The new Vercel Token Rate scales with the actual work each task requires.
Claude Sonnet 5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Claude Sonnet 5 from Anthropic is now available on AI Gateway . Sonnet 5 improves on Sonnet 4.6 across coding and agentic work, reaching outcomes on many tasks that previously needed an Opus model, at Sonnet pricing. The model is more agentic and follows instructions more closely. Document parsing and long-context memory use are also stronger.
An expanded Vercel Agent: chat, investigations, and approved actions, now in public beta
Today, we're launching expanded capabilities for Vercel Agent in public beta. Vercel Agent now lives in your dashboard and can investigate production issues, answer questions about your projects, and take action on your behalf.
Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) now on AI Gateway
Nano Banana 2 Lite from Google is now available on AI Gateway . This Flash-Lite-tier image model is built for fast, low-cost generation. It generates images alongside text in The cost is also lower than previous Nano Banana models.
Claude Fable 5 access restored on AI Gateway
Access to Claude Fable 5, the Mythos-class model, has now been restored on AI Gateway following the US Government's decision to lift the export controls. Fable 5 is the same model that was available between June 9 and June 12. What has changed is the safety classifiers, which are now updated and more robust.
Enforce consistent code for agents and humans with konsistent
konsistent is now open source. konsistent is a CLI linter for TypeScript codebases that enforces structural conventions, giving agents and humans the consistent context they need to implement features correctly. Deterministic, fast, and covers structural patterns that TypeScript and ESLint don't model.
Sandboxes now expire based on last use
Vercel Sandbox snapshots now expire based on when they were last used, not when they were created. Active snapshots stay alive as long as workflows depend on them, while unused snapshots expire on their retention policy. Every time a snapshot is used, its expiration timer resets.
xAI Grok audio models now available on Vercel AI Gateway
xAI's audio models are now live on AI Gateway. Realtime voice, text to speech, and speech to text are all available through the AI SDK with the same routing, observability, and spend controls as your other models. These capabilities are available on the AI SDK 7 release.