ClaudeArchitecting for model step-changes: A fireside with Vercel's Guillermo Rauch
Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- May 6, 2026
- Duration
- 27m
- Channel
- Claude
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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
hostHead of Product for Claude Platform at Anthropic, moderating the fireside chat.
Guillermo Rauch
guestCEO 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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