Prism
OpenAI introduced Prism, a free AI-native workspace for scientific writing and collaboration powered by GPT-5.2. It is available today to anyone with a ChatGPT personal account, with unlimited projects and collaborators.
The Deploy Log | Month by month
What shipped in AI in January 2026
50 rows dated January 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 9 leads, 20 in Models and APIs, 15 in Tools and products, 1 in Robotics, hardware and chips and 5 in Breakthroughs, from 9 publishers. They include Prism from OpenAI, Vercel Sandbox from Vercel, Waymo rides at SFO from Waymo, Notion 3.2 from Notion, Vercel skills from Vercel and 45 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.
Leads
Vercel Sandbox
Vercel Sandbox is generally available as an execution layer for agents, with on-demand Linux microVMs, sub-second starts, snapshots, and Active CPU pricing. Vercel processes over 2.7 million deployments per day on the same Hive compute platform.
Waymo rides at SFO
Waymo began offering fully autonomous rides to and from San Francisco International Airport starting January 29, 2026, with pickups and dropoffs at the SFO Rental Car Center. Access starts with a select number of riders and expands over the coming months.
Notion 3.2
Notion 3.2 shipped on January 20, 2026 with AI Notes on mobile, the Notion Agent on phones, and model choices of GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, or Gemini 3.
Vercel skills
Vercel released skills, a CLI for installing and managing skill packages for agents, plus skills.sh, a directory and leaderboard for skill packages.
Waymo Miami
Waymo opened its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to public riders in Miami on January 22, 2026, starting with a 60-square-mile service area and nearly 10,000 residents already signed up.
Veo 3.1
Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video now supports native vertical 9:16 output, richer dialogue, consistent characters and backgrounds, and upscaling to 1080p and 4K.
ChatGPT Health
A dedicated health space in ChatGPT with separate storage, memories, and encryption, launching to U.S. users 18 and older on web and iOS. Over 230 million people already ask health questions on ChatGPT weekly.
OpenAI for Healthcare
ChatGPT for Healthcare, available starting today and rolling out to AdventHealth, Baylor Scott & White Health, Boston Children's Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, HCA Healthcare, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Stanford Medicine Children's Health, and UCSF.
Models and APIs
Mistral Vibe 2.0
Mistral released Mistral Vibe 2.0, a terminal-native coding agent powered by the Devstral 2 model family, with custom subagents, multi-choice clarifications, slash-command skills, and unified agent modes on Le Chat Pro and Team plans.
Project Genie
Google DeepMind rolled out Project Genie to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. aged 18 and over, a prototype web app powered by Genie 3 that generates interactive worlds in real time from text and image prompts.
ServiceNow chooses Claude
ServiceNow chose Claude as the default model for its ServiceNow Build Agent and as a preferred model across the ServiceNow AI Platform, and is rolling out Claude and Claude Code to its global workforce of more than 29,000 employees.
Daggr
Hugging Face released Daggr, an open-source Python library for building AI workflows that connect Gradio apps, ML models, and custom functions, with automatic visual canvas.
GOV.UK AI assistant
Anthropic partnered with the UK's DSIT to build a Claude-powered AI assistant for GOV.UK, initially focusing on employment support for job seekers.
Horizon 1000
OpenAI and the Gates Foundation are committing $50 million in funding, technology, and technical support to reach 1,000 primary healthcare clinics and their surrounding communities by 2028, beginning in Rwanda.
ServiceNow OpenAI agreement
ServiceNow announced OpenAI will be a preferred intelligence capability for enterprises that run more than 80 billion workflows each year on its platform, with GPT-5.2 built directly into the ServiceNow AI Platform.
AssetOpsBench
IBM Research released AssetOpsBench, a benchmark for industrial AI agents with 2.3M sensor telemetry points and 4.2K work orders.
Diff Transformer V2
Microsoft introduced Differential Transformer V2, improving inference speed and training stability for production LLMs, with experiments still running.
Waypoint-1
Overworld released Waypoint-1, a real-time interactive video diffusion model trained on 10,000 hours of game footage, with weights on the Hub.
GPT 5.2 Codex
GPT 5.2 Codex is now available on Vercel AI Gateway with no other provider accounts required, combining GPT 5.2's professional knowledge work with GPT 5.1 Codex Max's agentic coding.
ChatGPT Go
ChatGPT Go is now available worldwide at $8 per month in the US, offering 10x more messages, uploads, and image creation than the free tier, with GPT-5.2 Instant.
Claude for Healthcare
Anthropic introduced Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA-ready products, connectors to CMS, ICD-10, and NPI, plus new life sciences connectors to Medidata and ClinicalTrials.gov.
Datadog Codex review
Datadog deployed Codex across its engineering workforce, with more than 1,000 engineers using it regularly, and Codex found more than 10 cases, roughly 22% of incidents examined, where its feedback would have made a difference.
Falcon-H1-Arabic
Falcon-H1-Arabic 3B, 7B, and 34B models outperform all SOTA models of similar sizes and sometimes bigger, with the 34B reaching approximately 75% on OALL and surpassing Llama-3.3-70B.
NVIDIA Cosmos Reason 2
NVIDIA released Cosmos Reason 2, an open reasoning vision language model for physical AI that tops the Physical AI Bench and Physical Reasoning leaderboards as the #1 open model for visual understanding.
Netomi agentic systems
Netomi pairs GPT-4.1 for low-latency tool use with GPT-5.2 for multi-step planning, sustaining sub-three-second responses with 98% intent classification accuracy during traffic spikes above 40,000 concurrent customer requests per second.
Tolan voice AI
Tolan built a voice-first AI companion with GPT-5.1, cutting speech initiation time by over 0.7 seconds, dropping memory recall misses by 30%, and raising next-day user retention more than 20%.
Stargate SB Energy partnership
OpenAI and SoftBank each invest $500 million in SB Energy. OpenAI signs 1.2 GW data center lease in Milam County. SB Energy secures $800 million Redeemable Preferred Equity from Ares. Part of $500 billion Stargate commitment.
OpenAI Grove
OpenAI opened applications for Grove, a five-week program for about fifteen pre-idea technical individuals, with mentoring, workshops, and early access to new tools and models.
Tools and products
Kimi K2.5 on AI Gateway
Kimi K2.5 is now accessible via Vercel AI Gateway with no other provider accounts required, with advanced coding abilities especially for frontend code quality and design expressiveness.
Live model performance metrics
Vercel AI Gateway now displays throughput and latency metrics across hundreds of models, updated every hour, with P50 and P95 latency and throughput available in the model list, model detail pages, and REST API.
Qwen 3 Max Thinking
Qwen 3 Max Thinking is now accessible via Vercel AI Gateway with no other provider accounts required, autonomously selecting built-in search, memory, and code interpreter tools during conversations.
Skills 1.1.1
skills@1.1.1 adds interactive skill discovery with npx skills find, a meta find-skills skill for AI agents, non-interactive mode, support for 27 coding agents, and is now fully open source.
Vercel API CLI command
vercel@50.5.1 adds a new api command giving direct access to the full suite of Vercel APIs from the terminal, with agents like Claude Code inheriting user access permissions automatically.
Vercel Agent in Slack
Vercel Agent investigations now appear directly in Slack alert messages as threaded responses, and 10 investigations are included at no additional cost for Observability Plus subscribers.
Cron jobs 100 per project
Vercel cron jobs no longer have per-team limits, and per-project limits were lifted to 100 on all plans, up from a cap of 20 per project.
Recraft on AI Gateway
Recraft image models V3 and V2 are now available via Vercel's AI Gateway with no other provider accounts required, supporting generateImage in the AI SDK.
Team-level build settings
Vercel build and deployment settings can now be configured at the team level and applied across all projects, with Standard, Enhanced, and Turbo build machines offering 4, 8, and 30 vCPUs respectively.
Vercel Montréal region
Vercel opened a Montréal, Canada region, yul1, that is generally available and handling production traffic, with support for Canadian data residency and Fluid compute.
Custom error pages
Vercel now lets Enterprise teams customize platform error pages with request ID and error code tokens, enabled automatically across all projects.
AWS databases on Vercel
Developers can provision Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL directly from the Vercel dashboard, and new AWS teams get a free starter plan with $100 in credits.
OpenResponses API on AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway is a day 0 launch partner for the OpenResponses API, supporting text generation, streaming, tool calling, image input, reasoning, and provider fallbacks.
Perplexity web search
Provider-agnostic web search on AI Gateway lets any model search the web in real-time with a single line of code, charged at $5 per 1,000 requests.
Secure Compute self-serve
Vercel's Secure Compute networks are now self-serve via dashboard, API, and Terraform, with Site-to-Site VPN coming soon.
Robotics, hardware and chips
DGX Spark and Reachy Mini
NVIDIA showed how to build a personal office robot agent using DGX Spark with Reachy Mini, combining NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano for reasoning, Nemotron Nano 2 VL for vision, and ElevenLabs for text-to-speech.
Breakthroughs
GIST algorithm
Google Research introduced GIST, a data subset selection algorithm with a provable guarantee of at least half the optimal value, outperforming benchmarks.
Intent decomposition
Google Research showed that decomposing intent extraction into screen summaries and then intent prediction lets small models match larger ones.
Smartwatch gait metrics
Google validated smartwatch-based gait metrics with 246 participants and 70,000 walking segments, showing strong validity (Pearson r>0.80) and reliability (ICC>0.80) for most metrics.
Hard-braking events as crash indicators
Google Research found hard-braking events from Android Auto correlate with crash rates, with 18x more road segments covered than crash data, and a case study showing a 70x higher HBE rate on a high-risk merge.
MedGemma 1.5
MedGemma 1.5 4B improves accuracy on CT, MRI, and histopathology classification, with gains like 14% on MRI findings, and is free for research and commercial use.
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