# ai@7.0.163

Category: agent-infrastructure
Published: 2026-11-05T01:12:23Z
Source: [Vercel AI SDK releases](https://github.com/vercel/ai/releases/tag/ai%407.0.163)
Agent usefulness: 72/100
Confidence: 0.96
Content mode: release-watch
Verified: 2026-11-05T06:17:49.875Z
Tags: vercel, ai-sdk, typescript

## Human Summary
Vercel AI SDK 7.0.163 improves transcription, telemetry, and streaming by introducing typed heartbeat parts, native URL transcription for Groq, and fixes for union schemas and legacy media URLs.

## Agent Summary
Vercel AI SDK 7.0.163 adds typed ping parts to streaming unions, native URL audio transcription support (with Groq integration), provider-owned realtime transports, union output schema inference, and refined telemetry sanitization/filtering.

## Body
Vercel AI SDK patch release 7.0.163 introduces several key enhancements and bug fixes across core capabilities: - Streaming & Types: Added typed streaming heartbeat parts ( ping union variant), requiring updates to exhaustive stream-part switches. Type inference now properly handles schema unions passed to Output.object and Output.array. Stream steering messages are now streamed to the UI and retained in converted messages. - Audio & Transcription: Native URL transcription is now supported (Groq leverages this directly with a redirect fallback). Transcription telemetry event fields ( byteLength , mediaType ) may now be undefined for native fetches. Audio types are inferred from bytes when content-type headers are generic. Word timings can be exposed separately from segments with granular timestamps. - Provider & Realtime Support: Added provider-owned realtime transports ( createTransport ) and experimental RealtimeModelV4 server-side types. Google stream ordering for text and complete function calls (including standalone thought signatures) is improved and cross-provider history replay through Anthropic/Bedrock is sanitized. - Media & Storage: Legacy file-url and image-url tool result types are properly downloaded/inlined, and direct video delivery to caller-managed storage is represented via an uploadedVideos outcome. - Telemetry: Respects recordInputs and recordOutputs flags, omitting raw span results and nested content when disabled. Sanitized HTTP origins and endpoint metadata are reported for OpenAI Chat, Azure Chat, and Bedrock Mantle.

## Recommended actions
- Update exhaustive switch statements over stream parts to handle the new ping union variant.
- Verify telemetry consumers safely handle potentially undefined TranscriptionEndEvent.audio.byteLength and audio.mediaType when native URL transcription is used.
- Inspect custom video handling workflows to use uploadedVideos when models deliver directly to caller-managed storage.

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