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Vercel BlogArticle5d ago

How Tailscale built a customer-facing model router on AI Gateway

This is infrastructure maturing in real time. Tailscale's approach to model routing via network identity is clever, but the real shift is that AI Gateway is now good enough for companies to ship it to paying customers. For builders: if you're routing models inside products and worried about API key management, this is proof the infrastructure is ready. For infrastructure teams: this is what the next layer looks like: model access as identity, not keys.

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Vercel BlogArticle6d ago

Tako Search is free on AI Gateway through September 30th

This is a distribution play dressed up as a feature launch. Tako Search gives your model live web access without switching providers or managing another API key, which removes friction for builders integrating search into agents. The free period is a hook to get you onto the AI Gateway platform itself. If you're building retrieval-augmented agents and currently cobbling together multiple APIs, it's worth a quick test, but watch what Vercel charges after September.

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Vercel BlogArticle14d ago

Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 now available on AI Gateway

This is a new variant release on a working infrastructure platform. Qwen 3.8 Max has credible claims on agentic work and coding, which are the two domains where model choice actually matters right now. If you're already using Vercel's gateway or running multi-model selection, add this to your eval matrix. But there's no signal that Qwen is displacing Claude or GPT-4 for serious agent work.

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