Vercel AI Gateway adds tako_search, a structured-data search tool

Vercel announced that Tako's structured-data search is now available as a tool on AI Gateway. Instead of pages of text, the tool returns data as JSON with units, sources and dates: Vercel lists stocks, polls, weather and government contracts, and says the data is licensed, cited and up to date.

Developers add the tako_search tool from the gateway to an existing AI SDK generateText call. Vercel also shows passing the results to a model with json-render so it picks a UI layout for the data. Vercel says it is free to start using on AI Gateway.

Guillermo Rauch of Vercel called it an example of generative UI and of AI Gateway acting as a marketplace of tools.