Vercel Ship 2026 made Drives generally available, gave eve memory and added AI Gateway budgets

On October 15, 2026, Vercel presented its Agent Stack at Ship 2026: Drives became generally available, eve gained persistent memory, Connect was generally available with more than 1,000 connectors and AI Gateway added budgets.

Archive entry: this covers an event from October 15, 2026, and we published it on November 8, 2026. The details come from sources dated at the time and may have changed since.

On October 15, 2026, at Ship 2026, Vercel presented its Agent Stack, announcing releases across storage, agent frameworks, connectors, AI Gateway and runtimes. Vercel summarized them in its Vercel Ship 2026 recap.

What changed

Vercel Drives, persistent storage mounted as a directory in Vercel Sandbox, became generally available on Hobby, Pro and Enterprise, and Drives could be forked so parallel workers started from the same files.
eve, Vercel's open-source agent framework, gained persistent memory across sessions, extensions for installing tools and skills, and agent creation and deployment from the Vercel dashboard.
Vercel said Connect was generally available with more than 1,000 connectors, and MCP Events, which lets agents respond to events from MCP servers, was in public beta.
AI Gateway added budgets for API keys, projects, individuals and teams, plus US-only inference and Zero Data Retention.
Bring Your Own Cloud on AWS was generally available, and Enterprise-Managed Authorization for Vercel Connect was in public beta.
Python was generally available on Vercel, and Vercel Daemons, for continuously running background workers, was in public beta.

What it meant for people building with AI

Vercel positioned its platform as infrastructure for agents and for the apps that builders like v0 generate. For agent builders, the list covered persistent storage that parallel workers could fork, memory in eve, a connector catalog in Connect, and spending and data controls in AI Gateway.

Event and usage figures

Vercel Ship 2026 ran across London, Berlin, New York, Sydney and San Francisco, and Ship SF had more than 2,700 attendees. Vercel said that over the 12 months before the event, the number of developers on Vercel grew 3x, the number of projects created doubled and agent-triggered deployments rose 28x. The Vercel Drives general availability changelog has more detail on Drives.

Sources

Vercel Ship 2026 recap (Vercel, October 15, 2026, official)
Vercel Drives is now generally available (Vercel, October 15, 2026, official)

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