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The AI products Claude, Grok, and Midjourney are all built using the Next.js framework.
Vercel has an enterprise customer that builds all of its products, features, and client communications exclusively using V0.
Over 1.3 million users have used Vercel's V0 product to date.
Guillermo Rauch predicts that specialized programming roles focused on "translation tasks," such as converting Figma designs into React, Tailwind, and CSS code, are likely to be automated away by AI tools.
Vercel customer Ramp successfully handled a 43x traffic increase during a Super Bowl ad, reaching an audience of 100 million people with 100% uptime using a Next.js application.
Guillermo Rauch estimates that building a flight radar application with V0 took less than two hours and cost around $20, whereas building it traditionally with engineers would have taken weeks and cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Vercel has open-sourced its AI SDK, a foundational component of V0 that enables developers to connect to any LLM and generate dynamic user interfaces from model responses.
Vercel plans to release a V0 feature within days that will allow the AI to seamlessly install and integrate necessary components like databases from the Vercel Marketplace.
Notion uses the Socket.io real-time engine for its real-time collaboration features.
When prompted to build a flight radar, V0 autonomously chose to use Mapbox and the Leaflet JavaScript library to implement the mapping functionality.
In a survey by Lenny's Newsletter, V0 was ranked just below Cursor and GitHub as one of the most used AI building tools by product builders and managers.
Three separate companies promoted digital products built and delivered on the Vercel platform during the most recent Super Bowl.