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## Title

    [Vercel AI SDK] "Type 'SomeModel' is not assignable to type 'LanguageModelV1'" after updating ai (provider/spec version mismatch)

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): New features added to the model specification make older provider versions incompatible with the expected spec type.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vercel/ai/5d12eaa6caa193d3901cbab98a734403eb6bf622/content/docs/09-troubleshooting/30-model-is-not-assignable-to-type.mdx (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Troubleshooting page: spec additions cause incompatibility with older providers; update providers and AI SDK.
    
    Search phrasings: not assignable to type LanguageModelV1; ai sdk provider type mismatch after upgrade
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "TypeScript compile error on the model argument after updating the AI SDK or a provider (similar for EmbeddingModel types).",
      "context": "Product: Vercel AI SDK\nComponent: Provider packages (@ai-sdk/*)\nOperation: passing a provider model to generateText/streamText\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nPackages: ai unknown\nTrigger: Mixing provider package versions and ai core versions built against different model specification versions.",
      "environment": {
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      "symptom_signature": {
        "literal_error_text": "is not assignable to type 'LanguageModelV1'."
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      "literal_source": "contributor_supplied",
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