What shipped in AI, week of January 12, 2026

9 deployments dated January 12 to 18, 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 1 lead, 2 in Models and APIs, 3 in Tools and products and 3 in Breakthroughs, from 4 publishers. They include Veo 3.1 from Google DeepMind, GPT 5.2 Codex from Vercel, ChatGPT Go from OpenAI, AWS databases on Vercel from Vercel, OpenResponses API on AI Gateway from Vercel and 4 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.

Leads

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.

Google DeepMind | In Edition 17, Saturday 17 Jan 2026

SOURCE Google DeepMind, Veo 3.1 Ingredients to Video: More consistency, creativity and control

Models and APIs

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.

Vercel | Models and APIs | In Edition 17, Saturday 17 Jan 2026

SOURCE Vercel, GPT 5.2 Codex now available on Vercel AI Gateway

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.

OpenAI | Models and APIs | Published Friday 16 Jan 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, Introducing ChatGPT Go

Tools and products

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.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 17, Saturday 17 Jan 2026

SOURCE Vercel, AWS databases are now available in the Vercel Marketplace and v0

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.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 17, Saturday 17 Jan 2026

SOURCE Vercel, OpenResponses API now supported on Vercel AI Gateway

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.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 17, Saturday 17 Jan 2026

SOURCE Vercel, Use Perplexity web search with Vercel AI Gateway

Breakthroughs

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.

Google Research | Breakthroughs | Published Thursday 15 Jan 2026

SOURCE Google Research, Unlocking health insights: Estimating advanced walking metrics with smartwatches

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.

Google Research | Breakthroughs | Published Tuesday 13 Jan 2026

SOURCE Google Research, Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

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.

Google Research | Breakthroughs | Published Tuesday 13 Jan 2026

SOURCE Google Research, Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR

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