The AI Cloud: A unified platform for AI workloads

This post introduces Vercel's AI Cloud, a unified platform for AI workloads that builds upon the Frontend Cloud. It highlights new AI-first tools and primitives: AI SDK for integrating with models and tools, AI Gateway for model routing and cost management, Fluid compute with Active CPU pricing for efficient AI execution, tool support, MCP servers, queues for autonomous actions and background tasks, and secure sandboxes for running untrusted code. The post emphasizes framework-defined infrastructure for AI, enabling agents to build AI apps without manual configuration. It details how AI SDK and AI Gateway simplify LLM interactions and model execution, and how Fluid compute optimizes for AI workloads with cost efficiencies. It also introduces simplified MCP server support via `@vercel/mcp-adapter` and the use of Vercel Queues for offloading background tasks.