Vercel AI SDK

Vercel AI SDK is a development kit launched by Vercel, a front-end website development and hosting platform and the Next.js development team. It is used to quickly build AI chatbot website applications and helps developers build conversational AI user interfaces using JavaScript and TypeScript.

Features of Vercel AI SDK

1. Supports front-end frameworks such as React/Next.js, Svelte/SvelteKit, and Vue/Nuxt, as well as Node.js, Serverless, and Edge Runtime.
2. It has built-in adapters for various AI models, supporting large language models provided by LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face.
3. It provides an interactive online prompting playground ( sdk.vercel.ai ) containing 20 open-source and cloud LLMs. It can display chat interfaces with different dialogue models in real time and quickly generate code.
4. We provide multiple AI chatbot templates and examples. You can clone/copy the initial templates of AI chatbots developed by Vercel based on different frameworks and models.

How to use Vercel AI SDK

1. Prerequisites include having Node.js version 18 or higher installed on your computer. To develop a GPT chatbot based on OpenAI, you will need to obtain an OpenAI API key.
2. Create a brand new project using a framework such as Next.js pnpm dlx create-next-app my-ai-appor Svelte pnpm create svelte@latest my-ai-app, and navigate to the created directory cd my-ai-app.
3. Install dependencies.pnpm install ai openai-edge
4. Configure your OpenAI API key .env.localby creating a file in the project root directory and adding your OpenAI API key.
5. Create API routes and connect them to the UI; once complete, pnpm run devlaunch the application using the Run command.