# Join the Vercel AI Accelerator **Published:** May 6, 2025 | **Authors:** Alli Pope | **Category:** Company News *A six\-week program offering over $4M in credits from Vercel, v0, AWS, and leading AI platforms* --- The Vercel AI Accelerator is back. This year, we'll work with 40 teams building the future of AI. Over six weeks, participants get the tools, infrastructure, and support to create next-generation AI apps. [Applications](https://vercel.com/ai-accelerator) are open now until May 17. ## Benefits of the program Participants in our AI Accelerator program get access to the following: - **Credits: **Use credits from Vercel, v0, AWS, and other top AI platforms including Anthropic, Braintrust, Cartesia, Cursor, Daytona, ElevenLabs, Fal, Groq, Hugging Face, Hyperbolic, Langbase + Chai, Mistral AI, Modal, OpenAI, Patronus, Perplexity, Quotient AI, Roboflow, Sieve, and Vapi - **Community: **Join a private group of AI builders in our Vercel Community. Share progress and exchange ideas - **Coaching: **Weekly fireside chats and office hours with leading AI startups, investors, and builders. Learn from what’s working. Use our guides, templates, and videos to move faster - **Visibility: **Get an opportunity to present your product at our demo day. Attract attention and raise awareness for your work in front of key industry leaders and VCs ## Credits from top AI platforms The Accelerator includes support from many of the leading AI platforms. Every selected team will receive thousands of dollars in credits. Finalists will earn over $100K each in additional credit prizes: > $1M in Activate credits toward eligible AWS services. > — AWS > $600k in credits toward their API. > — Anthropic > $20k in credits toward toward their end-to-end LLM evaluation platform. > — Braintrust > $288k in credits toward their voice AI platform. > — Cartesia > $11k in credits toward their AI code editor. > — Cursor > $625k in credits toward their secure and elastic infrastructure for running AI-generated code. > — Daytona > $170k in credits to use their text to speech and voice creation APIs. > — ElevenLabs > $175k toward their generative media models. > — Fal > $21k in credits toward AI inference. > — Groq > $15k in credits to run inference of large models and run your AI apps with accelerated hardware. > — Hugging Face > $5k in credits toward running GPUs and accessing AI models on Hyperbolic's on-demand AI cloud. > — Hyperbolic > $3k toward the Langbase serverless AI agents platform and $1k toward Chai, their prompt to agent tool. > — Langbase and Chai > $14k in credits toward their AI tooling, models, and infrastructure. > — Mistral AI > $350k in credits to deploy your models, run fine-tuning jobs or host embedding pipelines. > — $350k in credits toward their serverless compute platform. > $100k in credits to use their APIs. > — OpenAI > $5k in credits toward their evaluators, experiments, datasets, and API. > — Patronus > $475k in credits toward their API. > — Perplexity > $29k in credits toward their platform for AI code tracking and monitoring. > — Quotient AI > $40k in credits toward creating and deploying computer vision models. > — Roboflow > $50k in credits toward their AI video APIs. > — Sieve > $28k in credits toward free minutes using their voice AI agents. > — Vapi > $1.2M in credits to build and deploy on the AI Cloud. > — Vercel > $216k in credits toward Vercel's AI-powered development platform that turns ideas into production-ready, full-stack web apps. > — v0 ## The Accelerator The 40 teams we select will join us for six weeks of learning, building, and networking from June 9 to July 18. The program also includes an optional in-person meetup in San Francisco. Throughout the program, participants will be provided with additional AI content, opportunities to connect with the community, and exclusive chats with top AI builders. We also plan to meet with selected members for welcome and midpoint check-ins to ensure that the program is as beneficial and engaging as possible. The program ends with a demo day on July 18, where participants can present their projects to a wide audience. Judges will select three winners to receive over $100K in credits and swag from Vercel and our partners. The first-place winner will also receive an investment from Vercel Ventures. [Our last demo day](https://youtu.be/sNZIPrCQr80) featured product launches from 40 early-stage AI teams and was watched by thousands across the industry. ## AI on Vercel Companies like [Scale AI](https://scale.com/), [Leonardo AI](https://leonardo.ai/), and [Runway](https://runwayml.com/) build on Vercel with [Next.js](https://vercel.com/solutions/nextjs). Our platform helps accelerate your development by handling infrastructure automatically, so you can focus on shipping innovative AI applications. We also build tools like [v0](https://v0.dev/), our collaborative AI assistant for designing, iterating, and scaling full-stack web applications.  [We’re continuing](https://tweets.vercel.fyi/) to invest across the stack from [frameworks and workflows to templates](http://vercel.ai/), supporting how AI developers build today. You can check out some of our latest AI releases: [Chat SDK](https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-chat-sdk-3HiWFio0g6ZDT4C47XK1ru), [MCP on Vercel](https://vercel.com/templates/other/model-context-protocol-mcp-with-vercel-functions), and our [AI SDK](https://ai-sdk.dev/). ## Let’s build the future together AI is revolutionizing the world around us, and at Vercel, we want to give developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure they need to build great AI products. In our [first cohort](https://vercel.com/blog/ai-accelerator-participants), we backed early-stage teams like [Jenni](https://jenni.ai/) and [Memorang](https://memorang.com/). Now we're focused on what's next. [Apply](https://vercel.com/ai-accelerator) to the Vercel AI Accelerator and join a cohort of innovators building what’s next. Applications close May 17th. --- **More posts:** [View all blog posts](https://vercel.com/blog/sitemap.md) | [Changelog](https://vercel.com/changelog/sitemap.md)