Payments firms race to own AI inference: Stripe taps OpenRouter, Ramp enters the chain
xkonjin · x · 2026-09-18
The author predicts that whoever is closest to the metal, the money, or the user wins, and that within six months most large tech and tech-adjacent companies will compete to secure their own inference deals — with Stripe already integrating via OpenRouter and Ramp inserting itself into the inference chain.
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