Laravel has introduced a new official AI SDK, now documented in the Laravel 12.x docs, aimed at making it easier to build AI-powered features directly into Laravel applications.
The AI SDK provides a clean, framework-native API for working with modern AI capabilities like text generation, embeddings, and tool-based interactions. Rather than tying your application to a single vendor, the SDK is designed to support multiple AI providers behind a consistent interface, keeping configuration and usage aligned with Laravel’s familiar developer experience.
With the new AI SDK, Laravel developers can:
- Build agents with tools, memory, structured outputs, and streaming—all testable with built-in fakes.
- Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and more—swap models in a single line of code.
- Smart fallbacks handle rate limits and outages automatically.
- One package handles text, images, audio, transcriptions, embeddings, reranking, vector stores, web search, and file search.
This release continues Laravel’s trend toward first-party solutions for emerging application needs, giving developers an officially supported path to adding AI functionality while staying fully within the Laravel ecosystem.
Live Stream
On February 9th, join Taylor Otwell and Josh Cirre as they take a first look at the Laravel AI SDK and build and ship something amazing with it.
You can explore the new AI SDK in the Laravel at laravel.com/ai
