AI bot traffic is accelerating across the web. We built bots.fyi to track it in real time, and the data reveals three types of AI-driven crawlers that work in sequence, creating a discovery flywheel many teams are unintentionally disrupting. Not all bots are harmful. Crawlers power SEO, and we’ve spent years optimizing for them. Blocking AI crawlers without understanding their role is like blocking search engines and then wondering why organic traffic disappears. The real advantage comes from understanding each type of bot and deciding where access creates value.

Coxwave helps enterprises build GenAI products that work at scale. With their consulting arm, AX, and their analytics platform, Align, they support some of the world’s most technically sophisticated companies, including Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, and PwC. Since the company’s founding in 2021, speed has been a defining trait. But speed doesn’t just mean fast models. For Coxwave, it means fast iteration, fast validation, and fast value delivery. To meet that bar, Coxwave reimagined their web app strategy with Next.js and Vercel.

There is a long-standing myth that serverless compute inherently requires more connections to traditional databases. The real issue is not the number of connections needed during normal operation, but that some serverless platforms can leak connections when functions are suspended. In this post, we show why this belief is incorrect, explain the actual cause of the problem, and provide a straightforward, simple-to-use solution.

Ready.net is a core platform that helps utility companies manage their financing and compliance, the company works with a wide network of state-level stakeholders. New feature requirements come in fast, often vague, and always critical. With limited design resources supporting three teams, the company needed a way to speed up the loop between ideation, validation, and delivery. That’s where v0 came in.

With a single prompt, anyone can go from idea to deployed app with UI, content, backend, and logic included. v0 is now agentic, helping you research, reason, debug, and plan. It can collaborate with you or take on the work end-to-end. From product managers writing specs to recruiters launching job boards, v0 is changing how teams operate.

Zapier is the leading AI orchestration platform, helping businesses turn intelligent insights into automated actions across nearly 8,000 apps. As AI tools and agents become more capable, Zapier provides the connective tissue to operationalize them, bridging the gap between decision and execution.  Powered by Zapier extends this capability to partners. It enables SaaS and AI companies to embed Zapier’s automation engine directly into their products without needing to build or maintain thousands of integrations in-house. But explaining to partners what that experience can look like in their product was a challenge. Needing to move quickly with finite resources, the Zapier team could take a few weeks to design and build a clickable prototype. Now, with v0, the Powered by Zapier team can generate high-fidelity demos in just a few hours. The result: better conversations with partners, faster implementation cycles, and more integrations shipped for end users.

At Vercel, we're building the platform that delivers every pixel and token, and powers every frontend, backend, and agent on the web. With more than 4M weekly active domains and 115B weekly requests served by Vercel, the most forward-thinking teams are choosing Vercel’s AI Cloud to deliver fast, secure, full-stack applications with zero friction, infinite scale, and complete developer freedom. We’re proud to be the only vendor named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Native Application Platforms. We believe that this recognition serves as validation: the future of the web is being built on Vercel.

The GPT-5 family of models, released today, is now available through AI Gateway and in production on v0.dev. Thanks to OpenAI, Vercel has been testing these models over the past few weeks in v0, Next.js, AI SDK, and Vercel Sandbox. From our testing, GPT-5 is noticeably better at frontend design than previous models. It generates polished, balanced UIs with clean, composable code. Internally, we’ve already started using GPT-5 for Vercel's in-dashboard Agent and for v0.dev/gpt-5. GPT-5 shows strong performance in agent-based workflows. We have been impressed with it's long-context reasoning and ability to handle multiple tools in parallel have been especially effective in powering Vercel Agent.

Today, we're launching the official Vercel MCP server, now in Public Beta. Vercel MCP is a secure, OAuth-compliant interface that lets AI clients interact with your Vercel projects. AI tools are becoming a core part of the developer workflow, but they've lacked secure, structured access to infrastructure like Vercel. With Vercel MCP, supported tools like Cursor and Claude can securely access logs, docs, and project metadata directly from within your development environment or AI assistant.

Vibe coding has changed how software gets built. Tools like v0 make it possible to turn ideas into working prototypes in seconds. Anthropic's CEO predicts 90% of code will be AI-generated in 3-6 months. Adoption is accelerating fast, and for many builders, we're already there. But here's the uncomfortable truth: The faster you build, the more risk you create Last week, a viral app leaked 72k selfies and government IDs. This wasn’t a hack or advanced malware. It was caused by default settings, misused variables, and the absence of guardrails. A misconfigured Firebase bucket that was mistakenly left public for anyone to access. The app was built quickly, shipped without security review, and went viral.

Shipped on Vercel showcases real apps in production on Vercel, built by teams rethinking how the web works.

With over 2 million weekly downloads, the AI SDK is the leading open-source AI application toolkit for TypeScript and JavaScript. Its unified provider API allows you to use any language model and enables powerful integrations into leading web frameworks.