Vercel AI Updates: July 16, 2026

1. Inkling from Thinking Machines Lands on the AI Gateway

Vercel. Vercel added Inkling, a generalist model from Thinking Machines, to its AI Gateway. The model targets agentic, reasoning, coding, and instruction-following tasks and exposes a controllable thinking effort setting, letting developers trade latency against reasoning depth. It is reachable through the same unified gateway that developers use to route requests across providers. Source

2. GitHub Tools Gains Vercel Connect Support

Vercel. Vercel added Vercel Connect support to GitHub Tools, issuing short-lived, scoped GitHub tokens at runtime instead of storing long-lived secrets. The integration ships with preset configurations and supports multi-tenant setups, so agents and workflows can access GitHub with narrowly scoped, ephemeral credentials. Source

3. Chat SDK Adds Discord Components V2 Support

Vercel. Vercel’s Chat SDK gained support for Discord Components V2, letting bots use flexible component layouts with native containers, separators, and buttons in place of embeds. The update gives agent builders richer, more structured message formatting on Discord through the same Chat SDK backend. Source

4. Vercel Workflows Trace Viewer Adds a Minimap

Vercel. Vercel added a minimap to the Vercel Workflows trace viewer, giving developers viewport controls and chronological navigation across long traces. The addition makes it easier to inspect and move through complex, multi-step workflow executions when debugging. Source

5. Vercel CLI Makes Project Linking Faster and More Predictable

Vercel. Vercel released CLI v55.0.0, which reworks project linking to resolve teams first and then search within them. The change introduces a predictable flow across linking commands with explicit team signals, reducing ambiguity when linking projects across multiple teams. Source