Keep pulling the thread on Guillermo Rauch.
Next.js has accumulated 500 million downloads over the past 12 months.
The 500 million Next.js downloads in the past 12 months are more than the total downloads from the entire 2016 to 2024 period.
The Vercel platform is crossing the milestone of 1 billion total application deployments.
Vercel powers two of the top 20 highest traffic web properties in the world, including OpenAI and The Weather Company.
Google's AI Overviews feature is actively re-shuffling the distribution of traffic across the internet.
AI agents have the capability to write their own code and create new tools dynamically to achieve their objectives.
The AI Cloud necessitates a shift towards background compute that is long-running and I/O-bound, contrasting with the quick, CPU-bound foreground compute of traditional serverless platforms.
An "AI Cloud" will eventually be able to autonomously monitor, optimize, secure, and repair its own operations without requiring human intervention.
The future of cloud infrastructure is agentic, meaning it will automatically repair and optimize systems rather than just providing telemetry and alerts for humans to act on.
All software applications and services will eventually incorporate AI in some form.
The fundamental nature of cloud computing will evolve to become agentic.
The Vercel AI SDK (`ai` package on npm) is the second-most downloaded AI package for JavaScript/TypeScript, surpassed only by the `openai` package.