Vercel

Vercel is a hosting platform aimed at web developers. You connect a code repository, and Vercel builds and publishes the site automatically on every change, handling servers, scaling and the global delivery network for you. It is best known for creating Next.js, one of the most widely used frameworks for building websites in JavaScript, which is a large part of why the company sits so close to the centre of modern web development.

In AI news the company shows up because it has pushed hard into tooling for AI-assisted development and agent workflows, and it was among the five companies that launched the Agent Plugins standard in August 2026. For non-developers it is mostly invisible infrastructure: plenty of sites you use every day are served from it.