Stanford AI Club: Guillermo Rauch on Building the AI Cloud

These are just like cutting edge thoughts. Uh we produced this presentation with Vzero of course. Um and kind of wanted to give you guys kind of a dump of where my head is at. Some of the stuff we're working on at Verscell and some things that could be useful for you guys as you get through college and beyond. Obviously, I have to say I'm really interested always in feedback from you guys about Versel, etc. Uh at Brazil, one of our key um priorities and and things that we work

on every day is enabling innovators and startups. So keep that in mind. Uh also happy to announce that Stanford is now on Brazil. So I tweeted about this the other day. We're hosting FTL at stanford.edu with a lot more departments coming. Uh so really excited to be here today because I tweeted that this is actually the smartest uh university as of you know last week. Um, so, uh, very cool stuff. So, I think a lot of you guys know about us, but, um, we've hit

some pretty awesome milestones recently. So, NexJ has doubled the number of downloads year-over-year. We're just talking about how the future of developer experience is agents holding developer tools, not developers holding developer tools directly. I think it's a very important mindset mindset shift that's happening that actually resulted in a reaceleration on of nextjs adoption. So um GitHub just also mentioned the other day that TypeScript is the number one language again or so

back Python was in number one language last year. They hypothesized this is the byproduct of five coding. Uh there's so many uh tools out there uh like Vzero where you prompt and you end up with a bunch of TypeScript code. Um that explains that Versel itself hosts and delivers websites. We just recently passed a trillion requests per month and we serve over 10 million customers. I wanted to give you guys some context of how I'm thinking about the future by

uh telling you a little bit about the beginning of Verscell. So, Barcelos started out because I wanted to make creating for the web an experience that's um basically the spontaneous feeling of bringing a new idea to life. Um and I think recently and going back to like the idea of startups on Verscell, you should be able to not only test out your hypothesis, your ideas, your prototypes, but actually bring entire businesses alive. Versel is the tool that I wished I had had when

Versail got started. Um, also if you're looking to make a dent in the world or a startup here, I think uh you have to look at 10 years into the future. So, funny enough, yesterday was the 10th year anniversary of Verscell Incorporating. Um, and for us, it's always day zero. When we started this company, you know, LLMs were not a thing. Um, uh, the AIS SDK was not a thing. Not even XJS was a thing. So um

keep that in mind as you continue to iterate and and come up with new ideas. Our latest new idea and our focus uh for the foreseeable future will be in building what we call the AI cloud. When Brazil was started the main problem, the main uh uh itch that I was scratching is I saw a huge amount of potential in cloud computing but it was broadly inaccessible. So if you had an idea and you wanted to deploy it to the cloud,

especially for you guys as a student, just the friction in prototyping it, bringing it to life and then potentially scaling it was so significant that perhaps a lot of ideas would just not have existed to begin with. We see a similar opportunity with AI because if you have an idea for the next big assistant agent or AI application, uh there's significant friction in bringing that uh uh uh to reality. And so there's three fundamental shifts behind this