Speculation on Stripe buying OpenRouter to enable automated data acquisition
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-08-20
Speculation suggests Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter could enable Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) by leveraging Link's CLI. The idea is that models might identify performance gaps and autonomously purchase necessary data, as data remains a bottleneck compared to research taste.
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