AI Briefing#fluid-compute
The latest AI and developer news about #fluid-compute, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #fluid-compute, with the original source and a short summary.
The platform supported over 20 million clinical consultations in January 2026 and absorbed a viral TikTok traffic spike without additional capacity provisioning.
The platform uses Vercel Fluid compute for scalable backend processing and AI Gateway to route traffic across multiple model providers to ensure reliability.
Vercel has unveiled Fluid Computing, a single system that handles builds, sandboxes, and functions.
Vercel's Bun runtime now supports large functions up to 5GB and a maximum execution time of 30 minutes.
The Bun runtime in Vercel Functions supports Bun.serve and WebSocket handlers.
Factory processes 1 billion requests per day using a Vercel-based Next.js backend.
Factory handles tens of millions of daily API requests with a Vercel-based Next.js backend.
On Vercel's Pro and Enterprise plans, the maximum execution time for workflow steps has been significantly extended from 800 seconds to 30 minutes.
Vercel Sandbox now supports custom images, allowing users to instantly configure the OS and toolchain of their choice.
Vercel has launched VCR, a container registry that complies with the OCI specification and lets you use your existing workflows as they are.
Vercel Functions has increased the package size limit 20x, from 250MB to 5GB, strengthening support for AI and data libraries.
Vercel now lets you instantly deploy a Node.js server with just a server.ts file, no separate configuration needed.
Vercel Functions has significantly extended the maximum execution time for Node.js and Python runtimes to 30 minutes for Pro and Enterprise teams.
Superset built a multi-AI-agent IDE on top of Vercel.
Vercel Workflows moves to GA, handling long-running agents and backends inside your code.
Vercel now supports Django with zero configuration, allowing apps and APIs to be deployed instantly.
Vercel now supports deploying Go servers instantly without any separate configuration.
Vercel has launched **Vercel Queues**, an event streaming system built on Fluid compute, in public beta.
Vercel has started zero-configuration support that lets Koa applications run immediately without separate setup.
Vercel launched the **Montreal region (yul1)** to reduce latency for users in Central Canada.