# Vercel Vercel Inc. is an American cloud application company founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015 (originally as ZEIT, rebranded in April 2020). The company provides developer tools, frameworks, and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and deploy websites and AI applications. Vercel is the creator and maintainer of Next.js, the popular React-based web development framework. The company is valued at $3.25 billion (as of May 2024) and employs around 550 people. ## Key Products and Services ### Frameworks - **Next.js**: Open-source React framework optimized for the Vercel platform - **Nuxt**: Vue.js framework (acquired NuxtLabs in July 2025) - **Turborepo**: High-performance build system for JavaScript/TypeScript monorepos (acquired December 2021) ### AI Tools - **v0**: AI web development tool that creates web applications from natural language prompts (2023, won 2025 Webby Award) - **AI SDK**: Software development kit for building conversational streaming interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript - **AI Gateway**: Interface to access and deploy hundreds of AI models - **[[Skills.sh]]**: Open agent skills ecosystem for AI coding assistants - **[[Vercel DeepSec]]**: Open-source agent-powered vulnerability scanner for finding security issues in large codebases ### Infrastructure - **Fluid Compute**: Compute model that combines traditional server concurrency with serverless elasticity (2025) - **Edge Network**: Global CDN for fast content delivery - **Serverless Functions**: Backend compute without server management - **[[Vercel Sandboxes]]**: Ephemeral microVMs for running AI agents and untrusted code with restricted egress ## Deployment Vercel deployments are handled through Git repositories (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), the Vercel CLI, or the REST API. Deployments automatically receive a subdomain under vercel.app, with support for custom domains. The infrastructure runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). ## History - **2015**: Founded as ZEIT by [[Guillermo Rauch]] - **2020**: Rebranded to Vercel - **2021**: Raised $102M Series C; acquired Turborepo - **2022**: Acquired Splitbee - **2023**: Released v0 and AI SDK - **2024**: Raised $250M at $3.25B valuation - **2025**: Acquired Tremor and NuxtLabs; introduced Fluid compute model ## Related - [[Vercel Agent Browser]] - [[Vercel DeepSec]] - [[Vercel Sandboxes]] - [[Skills.sh]] - [[Cloudflare Pages]] ## References - Official Website: https://vercel.com/ - Documentation: https://vercel.com/docs - GitHub: https://github.com/vercel - Next.js: https://nextjs.org/