Is Stripe Buying OpenRouter for $10 Billion?
Summary
Will Stripe’s reported $10 billion OpenRouter deal go through? Alex Atallah, co-founder and CEO of OpenRouter, would not confirm it. But he made one thing clear: whatever happens, OpenRouter will kee
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There are reports that you are selling to Stripe for $10 billion. >> Is that going to happen? >> I can't comment, but whatever happens, we're we're going to execute on the vision. like what we're doing is critical for the ecosystem and we believe for like safe access to AI where you know one monopoly doesn't take over where we have like a vibrant ecosystem of models that everyone can explore and when new providers and new server tools and new inference adjacent tech comes online there's a really easy way to discover it and connect it with all of your existing AI I…
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