Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Top story
Introducing Stargate UAE
OpenAI is expanding its Stargate infrastructure platform beyond the US, signaling a shift toward distributed, international AI compute deployment. This move has implications for data sovereignty, geopolitical AI strategy, and how foundation model providers will scale globally.
The briefs
OpenAI is expanding the Responses API with production-ready agent capabilities (Remote MCP, image generation, Code Interpreter). This lowers the barrier for developers to build and deploy multi-tool agents at scale, directly competing with agent frameworks and pushing the shift from chatbots to autonomous workflows.
Vapi's MCP server on Vercel removes friction from agent deployment by giving developers a model-agnostic interface to orchestrate real-time voice workflows at scale. This is an infrastructure play that matters to founders building agent-native products.
Vercel is expanding beyond compute into AI-native storage infrastructure. For founders building AI products on Vercel, this is table stakes—but the real story is how storage commoditization affects the economics of serving AI workloads at scale.