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Claude Sonnet 4.5 Review, AWS Director on AI Agents, Vercel’s $9B Valuation | Sep 30, 2025

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Sep 30, 2025
Join Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, COO of Vercel, as she reveals Vercel's ambitious goal of becoming the 'AWS of AI' following a $300M funding round. She discusses the transformative potential of their new cloud services and the impact of the Claude Sonnet 4.5 model on coding. Also featuring Sean Nandy from AWS, who explains the practical applications of AI agents that can autonomously manage complex tasks and share insights from a case study where F1's downtime was reduced by 86% through agent-assisted analysis.
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INSIGHT

Vercel Is Building An AI Cloud For Agents

  • Vercel built an AI cloud and V0 to support agentic full-stack front-end apps.
  • Their platform is optimized for building conversational and background agents at scale.
ADVICE

Put Funding Into Product, GTM, And Global Reach

  • Invest in product, go-to-market, and global expansion when scaling an AI platform.
  • Support enterprise traction with dedicated product and sales teams to capture larger customers.
INSIGHT

Domain-Specific Fixers Improve Code Outputs

  • Vercel uses composite models and a fixer layer tailored to Next.js to reduce model errors.
  • Domain-specific tooling plus model outputs improves one-shot prompt success for developers.
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