Summary
Vercel made Claude Opus 4.7 fast mode available in research preview on AI Gateway and documented how to enable it for Claude Code. The release positions the faster mode as roughly 2.5x quicker for output generation and pairs it with AI Gateway usage tracking through the model leaderboard.
What changed
Vercel added Claude Opus 4.7 fast mode to AI Gateway and exposed configuration for Claude Code users.
Why it matters
This is infrastructure for teams routing coding and agent workloads through an AI gateway rather than directly to one vendor endpoint. It also gives Vercel a stronger claim on the model-routing and observability layer around popular coding agents.
Evidence excerpt
Vercel says fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 is available on AI Gateway in research preview and can be enabled for Claude Code via gateway-specific environment variables.