What shipped in AI, week of December 22, 2025

6 deployments dated December 22 to 28, 2025 are in The Deploy Log: 3 leads, 1 in Models and APIs and 2 in Tools and products, from 2 publishers. They include AI SDK 6 from Vercel, GLM-4.7 on AI Gateway from Vercel, MiniMax M2.1 on AI Gateway from Vercel, AprielGuard from Hugging Face, Pixel Portraits template from Vercel and 1 other. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.

Leads

AI SDK 6

AI SDK 6 adds an Agent abstraction, ToolLoopAgent with a 20-step default loop, tool execution approval via a needsApproval flag, strict mode, MCP tool calling with structured output, DevTools, reranking, standard JSON Schema, and image editing. Thomson Reuters built CoCounsel with 3 developers in 2 months and now serves 1,300 accounting firms.

Vercel | In Edition 15, Saturday 27 Dec 2025

SOURCE Vercel, Introducing agents, tool execution approval, DevTools, full MCP support, reranking, image editing, and more

GLM-4.7 on AI Gateway

Z.ai GLM-4.7 is live on Vercel AI Gateway with no other provider accounts required. It brings major improvements in coding, tool usage, multi-step reasoning, complex agentic tasks, conversational tone, and front-end aesthetics.

Vercel | In Edition 15, Saturday 27 Dec 2025

SOURCE Vercel, GLM-4.7 available on Vercel AI Gateway

MiniMax M2.1 on AI Gateway

MiniMax M2.1 is live on Vercel AI Gateway with no other provider accounts required. It is faster than M2 with improvements in coding, multi-step tool call tasks, refactoring, feature adds, bug fixes, and code review across Go, C++, JS, C#, and TS.

Vercel | In Edition 15, Saturday 27 Dec 2025

SOURCE Vercel, MiniMax M2.1 now live on Vercel AI Gateway

Models and APIs

AprielGuard

ServiceNow released AprielGuard, an 8B parameter safety and security safeguard model that detects 16 safety risk categories and adversarial attacks including prompt injection, jailbreaks, chain-of-thought corruption, context hijacking, memory poisoning, and multi-agent exploit sequences across standalone prompts, multi-turn conversations, and agentic workflows.

Hugging Face | Models and APIs | In Edition 15, Saturday 27 Dec 2025

SOURCE Hugging Face, AprielGuard: A Guardrail for Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Modern LLM Systems

Tools and products

Pixel Portraits template

Vercel released a v0 template that turns a selfie into a 16-bit pixel trading card using GPT Image 1.5 Edit, BRIA RMBG 2.0 background removal, Canvas API compositing, and a custom LoRA trained on pixel art, with the on-site pipeline completing in roughly six seconds.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 15, Saturday 27 Dec 2025

SOURCE Vercel, Pixel Portraits: AI-generated trading cards

v0 internal tools

Vercel's v0 AI agent lets business users build and publish internal tools with auditable code, enforced access control, and secure-by-default infrastructure.

Vercel | Tools and products | Published Saturday 27 Dec 2025

SOURCE Vercel, Stopping the slow death of internal tools

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