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OpenRouter called itself the “Stripe for LLMs” — now Stripe’s swooped in to buy it

Stripe has confirmed a bid to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway platform that had branded itself as the 'Stripe for LLMs,' according to The New Stack. The acquisition would bring OpenRouter's token-based routing for large language models under Stripe's payments infrastructure, expanding its AI-related services.

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After weeks of speculation, fintech giant Stripe has confirmed that it’s tabled a bid for AI model gateway platform OpenRouter,

The post OpenRouter called itself the “Stripe for LLMs” — now Stripe’s swooped in to buy it appeared first on The New Stack.

source & further reading
thenewstack.io — original article “The opening stages of OpenAI’s unraveling”: OpenAI slows model training — not everyone is buying the explanation AI-generated Rust compiles perfectly. That’s the scary part. Codex can now keep coding while it waits for your answer
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