Architecting for model step-changes: A fireside with Vercel's Guillermo Rauch

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

May 6, 2026

Duration

27m

Channel

Claude

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

When Opus 4.5 landed, v0 was ready on day one — not by luck, but by design. Guillermo Rauch sits down with Angela Jiang at Anthropic to unpack how Vercel architects for model step-changes: the bets that paid off, the ones that didn't, and what becoming an "agent-pilled company" actually looks like inside a frontier platform team.

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Angela Jiang

  host

  Head of Product for Claude Platform at Anthropic, moderating the fireside chat.

• Guillermo Rauch

  guest

  CEO of Vercel, discussing Vercel’s AI/agent infrastructure and product strategy.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Claude, featuring Angela Jiang and Guillermo Rauch, Architecting for model step-changes: A fireside with Vercel's Guillermo Rauch explores vercel’s Guillermo Rauch on agentic infrastructure and model-driven product leaps Vercel’s original mission—reducing friction from idea to production—has evolved into building “agentic infrastructure” that supports deploying and operating AI agents at scale.

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