Jev hit 13% of teams on Vercel's gateway in a day
Vercel says Jev reached about 13% of teams in its first day on AI Gateway, twice the GPT-5.6 family. Guillermo Rauch thinks the pull is less about the model and more about everyone hunting cheaper, faster inference.
Real money
Vercel says Jev hit 13% of teams on day one, 2x GPT-5.6
Vercel reports that Jev was adopted faster than any model in AI Gateway history, reaching roughly 13% of teams in its first day. That is 2x the GPT-5.6 family and 6x Fable 5.1, by Vercel's own numbers. Guillermo Rauch called the data shocking but credited the "AI is too expensive/slow" mood as much as the product.
People are eager to optimize and put AI in even more places!
Stolen playbooks
Marc Lou says 912 people finished his sponsor puzzle game
Marc Lou turned a sponsor's API credits into a 15 minute puzzle game with email verification, and reports 1,502 people found the first clue and 912 finished, a 61% completion rate. He says Higgsfield gave him $30,000 in credits, which he is handing out as 30 prizes of $1,000 to randomly picked finishers.
This little sponsorship experiment made me realize AI has pushed solopreneurship mainstream.
What changed under us
Rauch reports open models at 78.4% of Vercel gateway tokens
Guillermo Rauch says today may be a record day for open models on Vercel AI Gateway, at 78.4% of token volume against 21.6% closed. On spend, he says Moonshot AI and DeepSeek ranked third and fourth, and adding Z.ai puts their combined spend above OpenAI at number two.