Stripe will acquire OpenRouter for $7.5B
Stripe is paying nearly 6x OpenRouter's three-month-old valuation for a company that doesn't build AI models.
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the startup that lets developers tap more than 400 AI models through a single API, in a deal reported at $7.5 billion by The New York Times.
Stripe is paying nearly 6x that number for a company that doesn't make AI models.
It purchased the layer that decides, for thousands of apps, whose AI model wins and whose loses.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all have reasons to want control of model routing, since it's the layer that determines which of their models actually gets called.
47 минут назад @ startupfortune.com
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