AI SDK v5: A Crash Course

There’s one library you need for building AI-powered apps in TypeScript: Vercel’s AI SDK. Matt Pocock (Author of Total TypeScript) gives a hands-on crash course in AI SDK v5, showing how to integrate AI into React apps while avoiding vendor lock-in.

▪ Why you should learn AI “from the outside in” by building apps, not studying internals

▪ How the AI SDK provides one unified API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, local models, and more

▪ Using `generateText`, `generateObject`, `streamText`, and `streamObject` for powerful and type-safe workflows

▪ Preventing model lock-in with simple provider swaps in a single line of code

▪ Streaming results for faster time-to-first-token and real-time UI updates

▪ Building AI agents with type-safe tool calls using Zod schemas

▪ Why AI SDK v5 is more than a gateway; it’s a highway to production-ready AI apps

If you’re a TypeScript developer looking to bring AI into your applications, this is the talk you’ve been waiting for.