When major political developments unfold, millions rush to news websites, putting immense pressure on digital infrastructure. With global audiences, slow-loading websites or crashes during a major event can be catastrophic for a news organization.

Hive is Vercel’s low-level untrusted and ephemeral compute platform—designed to give us the control needed to securely and efficiently manage and run builds. Since November 2023, Hive has powered Vercel’s builds, enabling key improvements like enhanced build machines and a 30% improvement in build performance. The platform operates on the fundamental assumption that we’re executing potentially malicious code on multi-tenant machines, requiring it to be safe, reliable, performant, and cost-effective. It’s architected to handle multiple use cases and can be composed in different ways depending on what’s needed. Most recently, Hive allowed us to reduce provisioning times for Secure Compute customers from 90 seconds to 5 seconds, while also improving their build speeds. We built Hive because we needed finer control and more granular management to continuously improve Vercel’s infrastructure, to meet the growing demands of our customers and to fulfill our vision of delivering the best development experience in the world.

Our fifth annual Next.js Conf finished yesterday, where we shared our research and upcoming improvements to the framework, as well as what's new in the community and Next.js ecosystem. Over 1,000 people in the Next.js community gathered in San Francisco and tens of thousands around the world watched online to see what's new with Next.js.

With its compiler-first approach, fine-grained reactivity, and ability to integrate with any JavaScript project, Svelte stands apart from other frameworks. At Vercel, we're big fans of Svelte—deeply invested in its success and constantly working to make our platform the best place to build and deploy Svelte apps. With the arrival of Svelte 5, let's explore what makes this release exciting.

v0 is a powerful tool for generating high-quality UIs and code, and it's also an educational asset for designing and creating on the web. It leverages deep integrations with libraries and modern frameworks like Next.js and React. Whether you're looking to scaffold a new project, fetch data, or create 3D graphics, v0 is designed to meet all your frontend development needs. To get the highest quality generations, you need to be able to craft input prompts to guide v0 well. The better you guide v0 and understand its strengths, the more accurate and relevant the responses you'll get. In this post, we’ll look at how you can get the most out of v0’s core features, UI generation abilities, code generation, and developer support.

Vercel's main website, once a single large Next.js application, serves both our website visitors and logged-in dashboard. But, as Vercel grew, this setup revealed opportunities for improvement. Build times grew, dependency management became more intricate, and workflows needed optimization. Minor changes triggered full builds, affecting isolated development and CI pipelines. It was clear a change was needed.

The prestigious BNP Paribas Open, held annually in Indian Wells, California, attracts top tennis talent and a global audience. To match its world-class status, the tournament required a significant digital upgrade, enabling dynamic, real-time tracking and engagement with hundreds of players for their fanbase of millions.

AI changes how we build software. In combination with developers, it creates a positive feedback loop where we can achieve better results faster. However, traditional testing methods don't work well with AI's unpredictable nature. As we've been building AI products at Vercel, including v0, we've needed a new approach: eval-driven development. This article explores the ins and outs of evals and their positive impact on AI-native development.

Last October we introduced v0—a generative user interface system powered by natural language and AI. Users generated over four million designs, creating everything from sophisticated dashboards to polished marketing pages. Now, v0 is like having an expert programmer sitting next to you. It's an assistant that specializes in web technologies and frameworks to help you generate functional code and UI from best practices, migrate or debug existing code, or learn to code for the first time. Starting today, v0 is available to teams of all sizes, with plans designed to help you collaborate and scale securely. v0 Team and v0 Enterprise plans offer security features like SSO and, for Enterprise, the ability to opt out of data training, while helping you share and reuse knowledge and generations across your whole team.

React Three Fiber (R3F) is a powerful React renderer for three.js that simplifies building 3D graphics using React's component-based architecture. Whether you're building complex environments, animations, or interactive scenes, R3F makes it accessible—even if you're not an expert at math or physics. With R3F support in v0, our AI-powered development assistant, you can incorporate 3D designs in your projects by chatting with v0 using natural language. Let's explore how to use v0 and R3F to create interactive 3D scenes to elevate your web designs.

Emburse manages travel and expense for over 12 million users in 120 countries. They were operating a legacy stack and needed to modernize, so they partnered with Rangle, a leading digital transformation consultancy and Vercel Expert. Together with Rangle, Emburse implemented Vercel, Next.js, and Sanity, significantly improving the site’s performance and speed while addressing key concerns for their marketing team.

ChatPRD is an AI co-pilot designed for product managers, enabling them to write product requirements documents, brainstorm roadmaps, and improve overall efficiency around product work. As a solo founder, Claire Vo built ChatPRD from the ground up. In just nine months, the platform has garnered 20,000 users and is now focusing on expanding its features to support team collaboration. Central to this rapid growth and development has been the AI SDK on Vercel.