Fin, the AI agent platform formerly known as Intercom, replaced its in-house realtime system Nexus with Ably AI Transport after AI conversations changed infrastructure requirements, achieving 99.9999%…
AI Transport v0.5.0 introduces Steps, a feature that enables durable execution of agent turns by allowing retries without duplicate output, integrating with frameworks like Temporal and Vercel WDK to …
Ably CEO Matt O'Riordan argues that HTTP's request-response model is insufficient for AI agents that run for minutes, citing connection drops, lack of bidirectional communication, and state synchroniz…
Ably released AI Transport v0.4.0, adding optional database hydration support for storing and reconciling AI conversation history. The feature allows developers to persist completed runs to an externa…
Ably and Durable Sessions have developed a demo that enables multiple people and AI agents to collaborate in a single chat session, allowing users to tag an AI assistant for help while maintaining a s…
Vercel AI SDK's useChat hook lacks a session layer for multi-device sync, multi-user conversations, and resumable streams. Ably AI Transport replaces the default transport to add these features, enabl…
Developers using the Vercel AI SDK are discovering that calling chat.stop() only closes the client connection, not the server-side generation, leading to continued billing. Fixing this requires a dedi…
Ably and Vercel released Wayfarer, an open-source demo of a collaborative AI travel-planning app that uses a durable session to synchronize real-time agent streams, shared state, and multi-user presen…
Ably released AI Transport v0.3.0, adding first-class support for presence and LiveObjects to AI sessions, enabling real-time visibility of online participants and synchronized shared state. The updat…
Ably discovered twelve hidden dashboards built as AI skills after employees lost trust in the official Metabase tool due to hundreds of ungoverned, inconsistent dashboards. The company now treats dash…
Ably released v0.2.0 of its AI Transport SDK, reorganizing it around durable sessions rather than simple request/response turns. The update models AI conversations as multi-step, multi-party, and even…
Ably launched a new AI Transport product that makes AI sessions durable, addressing a gap left by existing durable execution tools like Temporal. While Temporal crash-proofs backend workflow jobs, it …
Ably has developed a universal conformance test suite for its SDKs, leveraging LLMs to address inconsistencies in test coverage and implementation across its 12+ client libraries. The new approach rep…
Ably has launched AI Transport, a system that stores AI agent sessions in durable channels rather than tying them to individual connections. The technology addresses three common production failures: …
Ably built a custom transport for the Vercel AI SDK that replaces the default HTTP-based streaming transport with Ably's realtime pub/sub platform. The new transport enables multi-device and multi-use…
A new report from Ably, based on interviews with 38 companies building AI products at scale and evaluations of 37 vendors, finds that the primary obstacle to deploying AI agents in production is not m…
Ably shipped AI Transport, a drop-in transport layer for streaming LLM output over Ably channels that includes resumability and multi-device continuity guarantees. The system uses a new "append" messa…