OpenRouter cofounder: AI's biggest lie is that the future belongs to one winner
cpaik · x · 2026-10-28
Alex Atallah, cofounder of OpenRouter (and previously OpenSea), called "the future belongs to one winner" the biggest lie in AI. He argues every tech wave starts with one company promising a single walled garden, and market forces always break the walls down — OpenRouter is built on the opposite bet that humanity will refuse lock-in and AI's future will be open and plural.
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