Stripe reportedly acquiring OpenRouter, betting on model aggregation
Stratechery · rss · 2026-08-17
Stripe is reportedly acquiring OpenRouter, per Stratechery. The deal is framed as an implicit bet on a future market of AI models — if model calls become core infrastructure, OpenRouter's aggregation layer could become the Aggregator of that market, with a chance to flip the existing business model.
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