What Laravel 13 Actually Changes for AI...

Laravel 13 dropped a production-stable AI SDK on release day and nobody's talking about what it actually replaces. Here's the full breakdown. Laravel 13 launched on March 17, 2026 , and Taylor Otwell kept his Laracon EU promise: zero breaking changes, a clean upgrade from Laravel 12, and one headline shift that resets the default approach to AI in PHP. The Laravel 13 AI SDK is now production-stable, first-party, and catalogued inside the official Laravel documentation as a core concern — not a s