OpenRouter gives developers one interface to manage hundreds of #Artificial Intelligence models — including offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, and open weight labs — allowing for easy comparisons and switch-offs. Stripe already handles OpenRouter’s payments and billing. Buying the company simply pushes them into owning the layer that #(Cool) Dev developers use to access and pay for models. The headline here is the price: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3 billion in May, so a $10 billion deal bumps that up by 8x in a matter of months. Talks could still fall apart, but it’s becoming clear how much value investors have attached to the plumbing behind the AI model marketplace.
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