Stripe reportedly agrees to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion

Summary

TechCrunch, citing Bloomberg, reported that Stripe had finalised a deal worth more than $7 billion for OpenRouter. OpenRouter provides access to more than 400 models and reported 8 million users.

Why it matters

The deal would give a major payments company a direct control point over how customers compare, select and route requests among AI models.

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Sources

• Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
• Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter