Vercel reached a $3.25 billion valuation following a $250 million Series E round as 30% of its applications now utilize AI agents. High serverless execution costs and function timeout limits are driving some developers to migrate workloads to AWS Amplify or raw compute environments.
Cohere reached $240 million in annual recurring revenue in February 2026 while maintaining a 70 percent gross margin. The company focuses on sovereign AI and high-margin enterprise contracts through its Command R+ model and North platform.
Temporal provides superior portability and durability for long-running workflows compared to AWS Step Functions. While Step Functions excels at lightweight AWS-centric automation, Temporal's support for eight language SDKs and its integration with OpenAI Agents SDK makes it ideal for AI agents.
