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Vercel

San Francisco cloud-computing company for deploying web applications that hosted live chess matches between frontier models.

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Welcome to January 7, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Vercel is a San Francisco cloud-computing company whose platform deploys web applications. In this corpus it appears in the January 7, 2026 issue hosting live chess matches between frontier models, which the newsletter reads as reinforcement learning coming full circle. It reappears in August among the companies steering OpenAI’s vendor-neutral Agent Plugins spec.

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2026-09-29: Open-weight models reach a reported majority of Vercel traffic

2026-08-21: A social network burns trillions of tokens a week writing its own software

2026-08-06: A vendor-neutral spec packs skills and servers into portable bundles

2026-01-07: Frontier models play live chess against each other

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Vercel
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