OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
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Alex Atallah is the Founder and CEO @ OpenRouter, the unified interface for LLMs. The company has raised over $153M in funding, with the latest valuation pricing the company at $1.3BN. OpenRouter is r
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This going to be like the biggest biggest market in tech ever. A lot of companies are making routers because it's fashionable. The model labs have several incentives to go after you eventually. Today we have Alex Atala, co-founder and CEO of Open Routter, the unified interface, the gateway to the world of LLMs. They reportedly have had offers from Stripe for $10 billion. They've raised at a valuation of over a billion and a half. They are the market leader and this interview could not come at a more precient time. In July, we launched 70 models. About one model every 10 hours. America is very very behind. Still GLM 5.2 was a really big big step for openweight models. There are reports that you are selling to stripe for $10 billion. Is that going to happen? Ready to go. Alex, I am so excite…
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