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Vercel Ship 2025: Opening keynote

Guillermo Rauch · Jun 25, 2025 · 45m

Summary

Vercel repositioned as the AI Cloud: infrastructure for AI apps and agents with the developer experience it built for frontends. Launches included Active CPU pricing for Fluid compute, the Vercel Sandbox for untrusted code, Rolling Releases, BotID bot protection built with Kasada and Vercel Agent for AI-assisted investigation.

Key themes: Cloud, Agents, Pricing · AI-written summary from the published transcript

Where each highlight is said44:32
  1. 8:55

    Vercel called its platform the AI Cloud, purpose-built for AI apps and agents

  2. 15:18

    Fluid compute moved to Active CPU pricing, an across-the-board price reduction

  3. 16:49

    The Vercel Sandbox isolates untrusted or AI-generated code

  4. 26:53

    Rolling Releases let teams roll changes out to production users gradually

  5. 39:31

    Bot protection built with Kasada, which already protects v0 and vercel.com, is available to customers (BotID)

  6. 43:58

    Vercel Agent explains root causes of anomalies in plain language and proposes firewall rules

Announced

2 available the same day
GAActive CPU pricingPrice reduction for Fluid compute
PreviewVercel SandboxIsolated execution for untrusted code
AnnouncedRolling ReleasesGradual production rollouts
GABotIDBot protection with Kasada
PreviewVercel AgentAI investigations and proposed defenses

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About this keynote

Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNmO7fDiyuE

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Companies named: Kasada, Vercel

Last changed 2026-09-24.