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#Seeking Text-Based Mentorship for Multimodal AI (Next.js / Vercel)
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Thanks for sharing your project! While I'm not able to connect you with mentors or review external repositories, I can point you toward some relevant Next.js + Vercel resources for building multimodal AI applications.
Multimodal Support
For adding image and audio (multimodal) capabilities to your Next.js app, Vercel has a ready-made template that demonstrates exactly this using the Vercel AI SDK's useChat hook:
- Multi-Modal Chatbot – shows how to build a chat interface that sends and receives multi-modal messages (attachments) with your AI provider of choice. [Multi-Modal Chatbot]
You can bootstrap it with:
npx create-next-app --example <https://github.com/vercel-labs/ai-sdk-preview-attachments> ai-sdk-preview-attachments-example
Architecture & Scaling
The Vercel AI SDK is the recommended toolkit for building scalable AI apps on Next.js. It provides: [AI SDK]
- A unified API to swap between providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, etc.) with minimal code changes
- Support for streaming text, structured objects, and tool calls
- Hooks for dynamic chat UIs
For a full-featured reference architecture (App Router, Auth, Postgres for chat history, Blob storage, serverless patterns), the official Chatbot template is a strong starting point: [Chatbot Template]
It includes:
- React Server Components & Server Actions
- Neon Serverless Postgres for chat persistence
- Vercel Blob for file storage
- Auth.js for authentication
Switching/Adding Providers
Since you already have OpenAI integrated, the AI SDK makes it straightforward to add other providers. For example, switching to Anthropic is just two lines: [AI SDK]
import { generateText } from 'ai';
const { text } = await generateText({
model: 'anthropic/claude-opus-4.5',
prompt: 'Your prompt here',
});