# Vercel — AI SDK 4.1

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2025-01-20T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/ai-sdk-4-1
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20907-ai-sdk-4-1
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel released AI SDK 4.1, adding an experimental generateImage function for image generation via a unified API across providers including Replicate, OpenAI, Google Vertex, and Fireworks. The update also introduces stream transformation and smoothing, simplified chat persistence with useChat, and non-blocking data streaming via createDataStreamResponse.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/ai-sdk-4-1:

> Today, we're announcing the release of AI SDK 4.1, which introduces image generation capabilities. This update allows developers to generate images through a unified API that works seamlessly across providers like Replicate, OpenAI, Google Vertex, and Fireworks.

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