Vercel AI Updates: July 13, 2026

1. Seedream 5.0 Pro Lands on the Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel. Vercel added ByteDance’s Seedream 5.0 Pro, an image generation and editing model, to its AI Gateway. The model renders text within images without spelling errors, follows typographic rules, and can build detailed infographics with charts, timelines, and photorealistic imagery, all accessible through the AI SDK by setting the model to bytedance/seedream-5.0-pro. This gives developers another image model to reach through the same unified gateway that reflects provider pricing with no platform markup on inference. Source

2. AI SDK Groq Provider Fixes Prompt Cache Reporting

Vercel. Vercel released @ai-sdk/groq@4.0.8, which corrects prompt cache reporting so cached tokens are surfaced properly. The provider now reads prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens and exposes it as usage.cachedInputTokens mapped to cacheRead, fixing a bug where cache hits were reported as undefined and the full prompt was counted as uncached. Accurate cache metrics matter for developers tracking token usage and cost when running Groq models through the AI SDK. Source