Laravel 13 shipped with a first-party AI SDK. Not a community package, not a third-party integration. A framework-level abstraction for text generation, tool-calling agents, image creation, embeddings. AI is now a first-class citizen in Laravel, like mail or queues.

I have mixed feelings. On one hand, Laravel's strength has always been making common tasks conventional. If every app is going to talk to an LLM, giving it the same treatment as sending email makes sense. On the other hand, AI APIs are changing faster than any framework can keep up with. Mail protocols haven't changed in decades. The LLM landscape changes every week.

My bet: in two years we'll know if this was visionary or premature. Right now it's a strong opinion, and I respect Laravel for having one.