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Stripe's OpenRouter Acquisition Targets the Plumbing Under Your Agents

Stripe's OpenRouter Acquisition Targets the Plumbing Under Your Agents

Stripe is reportedly paying more than $7 billion for OpenRouter, the gateway that roughly 8 million developers use to route LLM traffic across 400-plus models. Bloomberg first reported the deal on August 16, Axios followed with a figure above $8 billion in cash and stock. And neither company has confirmed
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