Vercel AI SDK - Empowering Developers to Build AI-Powered User Interfaces

Overview:

             The Vercel AI SDK is an open-source library designed to help developers build conversational, streaming, and chat user interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript. It provides a set of utilities for developing AI applications and supports easy integration with top AI-based providers like OpenAI, HuggingFace, or Anthropic.

Users:

             The SDK is designed for developers who want to incorporate AI services and models into their applications. It’s particularly useful for those building AI-powered streaming text and chat UIs.

Goal:

             The primary goal of Vercel AI SDK is to streamline the development of AI apps, allowing developers to focus on creating value with their AI applications, rather than spending time building and maintaining infrastructure.

Uses and Features:

             1. Edge-ready: Compatible with Vercel’s Edge Network, enabling fast and scalable AI-powered apps.

             2. Built-in Adapters: First-class support for LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face.

             3. Streaming First: SWR-powered React hooks for fetching and rendering streaming text responses.

             4. Stream Callbacks: Callbacks for saving completed streaming responses to a database in the same request.

             5. Supports Multiple Frameworks: The SDK supports React/Next.js, Svelte/SvelteKit, with support for Nuxt/Vue coming soon.

How it Works:

             1. Open-Source Library: The Vercel AI SDK is an open-source library that provides a set of tools and utilities to integrate artificial intelligence capabilities into web applications seamlessly.

             2. Integration: It supports easy integration with some of the top AI-based providers.

             3. User Interfaces: It helps developers build conversational, streaming, and chat user interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript.

             4. Supports Multiple Frameworks: The SDK supports React/Next.js, Svelte/SvelteKit, with support for Nuxt/Vue coming soon..

             5. Installation: To install the SDK, enter the following command in your terminal npm install ai.

Customer Companies Statistics:

             1. Vercel enables notable customers, including Under Armour, Nintendo, The Washington Post, and Zapier, to build delightful user experiences on the Web.

             2. Over the past 6 months, several AI companies, such as Scale, Jasper, Perplexity, Runway, Lexica, and Jenni, have launched with Next.js and Vercel.

             3. Vercel’s relatively new AI SDK has quickly gained traction amongst JavaScript developers, with a current rate of 40,000 weekly downloads on npm.