Vercel acquires Better Auth to accelerate open source auth

Short summary

Vercel is acquiring Better Auth, the company behind the open source TypeScript authentication library with 4.7M+ weekly npm downloads and 850+ contributors. Founder Bereket Engida and the core team join Vercel to advance agent identity, enabling each AI agent to carry its own scoped, revocable authority rather than running under a shared user identity. The library remains free and MIT-licensed with the same community governance and framework-agnostic support.

• •Vercel acquires Better Auth (4.7M+ weekly npm downloads, 850+ contributors) to accelerate open source auth and agent identity work
• •Founder Bereket Engida and core team join Vercel; library stays MIT-licensed with same governance model
• •Agent Auth Protocol enables per-agent scoped, revocable identities — foundational for agentic infrastructure

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