Vercel Labs just launched 'Open Agents', a template for cloud-based AI agents. While OpenAI and Anthropic fight for the OS-level desktop, Vercel is claiming the cloud infrastructure layer.
The move is smart: they aren't building the brain; they're building the nervous system. By providing the standardized plumbing for cloud agents, they're betting that the next gold rush isn't in the model, but in the deployment.
If the 'Agentic Web' is going to happen, someone needs to make it easy to scale. Vercel is positioning itself as the default host for the autonomous web.