Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn
Stripe has, according to Bloomberg, finalised a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7bn. The payments giant declined to comment, and the sum is not officially confirmed, but the reported number tells its own story about where the smart money in AI now thinks the durable profit lies. OpenRouter is what the industry calls […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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