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
- 8:55
Vercel called its platform the AI Cloud, purpose-built for AI apps and agents
- 15:18
Fluid compute moved to Active CPU pricing, an across-the-board price reduction
- 16:49
The Vercel Sandbox isolates untrusted or AI-generated code
- 26:53
Rolling Releases let teams roll changes out to production users gradually
- 39:31
Bot protection built with Kasada, which already protects v0 and vercel.com, is available to customers (BotID)
- 43:58
Vercel Agent explains root causes of anomalies in plain language and proposes firewall rules
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Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNmO7fDiyuE
Guillermo RauchFounder and CEO, Vercel
Companies named: Kasada, Vercel
Last changed 2026-09-24.