Vercel acquires Better Auth to accelerate open source auth

Vercel is acquiring Better Auth, the company behind the open source TypeScript authentication library, which has 4.7M+ weekly npm downloads and more than 850 contributors. Founder Bereket Engida and the core team are joining Vercel to continue their work on Better Auth and agent identity.The open webLast year, we published our approach behind Next.js, AI SDK, and Nuxt: software that's open by default, loosely coupled, and portable to any platform.Better Auth applies it to authentication: framework-agnostic, runs anywhere, and gives developers auth they own.Agent identityWhen an agent acts on your behalf, it runs under your identity and access, so every service it touches sees you, not the ag