Laravel 13 is out, and the headline feature is the first-party AI SDK. It provides a unified API for text generation, image generation, audio synthesis, embeddings, and vector store integrations, abstracting away provider differences so you can swap models without touching application code.

The other addition worth noting is native vector search via PostgreSQL and pgvector, which pairs well with the new embeddings support.

JSON:API resources are now first-class, and PHP attributes have been extended to cover middleware, authorization, and job retry behaviour. Less boilerplate, more declarative config. Requires PHP 8.3 minimum.

Read the Laravel 13 release notes