Vercel AI Updates: September 16, 2026

1. AI Gateway Picked Up Gemini 3.8 Live the Day It Launched

Vercel. Both google/gemini-3.8-live and google/gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking are routable through AI Gateway, exposing real-time audio, visual grounding, automatic switching across 97 languages, and background tool execution during a conversation. Integration goes through the AI SDK realtime API with @ai-sdk/gateway and ws: fetch a short-lived token, open a WebSocket, and use the model adapter to serialize and parse events. Output modality is configured explicitly, with thinkingLevel available on the Extended Thinking variant for parallel multi-step reasoning narrated over live speech. Source

2. Is Agentic Audits Now Split Into Four Site Types

Vercel. The Is Agentic audit tool groups its checks into Docs and content, Business, App, and Commerce views, so a storefront sees payment and checkout standards foregrounded while an app sees API and authentication checks. Scoring is unchanged across views, which keeps results comparable. The default view is set with a <meta name="is-agentic-site-type" content="app"> tag accepting content, business, app, or store. Source