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Access Perplexity Web Search on Vercel AI Gateway with any model

Vercel just unlocked web search for every AI model. No more vendor lock-in.

Reporting by Vercel Blog 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Vercel AI Gateway now integrates Perplexity Search as a universal tool across all LLM providers, reducing developer friction and breaking down walled gardens that previously locked search capabilities to first-party models. This is a meaningful productivity win for teams building multi-model AI applications.

The key facts

5 to know

  1. Perplexity Search now available via Vercel AI Gateway

  2. Works with any model, regardless of provider

  3. Adds web search capability to models without native search (e.g., Alibaba glm-4.7)

  4. Use cases include developer tooling, CI assistants, and fallback consistency across multiple providers

  5. Accessible via @ai-sdk/gateway import with perplexity_search tool

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Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: You can now give any model the ability to search the web using Perplexity through Vercel's AI Gateway. AI Gateway supports Perplexity Search as a universal web search tool that works with all models, regardless of provider. Unlike native search tools that are exclusive to specific providers,…
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