Vercel AI SDK was extracted from v0 before re-integrating it
Malte Ubl · ⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl · Nov 1, 2025 · at 17:13
Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, explains the architectural history and dogfooding loop between v0 and Vercel's AI SDK.
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“Like that, like AISDK was extracted from B-Zero and then we build it and we kind of diverged a little bit and then we took on the substantial work to bring back VZero actually fully hosted on ISDK”
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