Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch details how the AI industry is moving past the experimental phase toward secure, practical production deployment. Rauch highlights two primary use cases for agents: coding assistants and internal corporate productivity tools. He introduces Vercel’s initiatives, such as the Eve framework and Vercel Sandbox, designed to provide data security, auditing, and control for agents. Furthermore, Rauch emphasizes the importance of decoupling AI models from agent platforms, arguing that developers should maintain a flexible, multi-model infrastructure—similar to traditional software engineering—rather than being locked into the ecosystems of single AI labs.

(Source：TechCrunch)