Stripe's conviction bet on OpenRouter: needs 1000x scale-up
zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-08-17
A commenter argues Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter is a conviction bet requiring roughly three orders of magnitude of growth. As reference, the most popular model (DSV4 Flash) sees only $30k/day in output-token liquidity, with input hard to estimate due to caching.
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