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numlocked
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About numlocked
COO, OpenRouter (https://openrouter.ai)
Previously: Co-founder & CTO Grove (www.grove.co, NYSE:$GROV)
Creator of SQL Explorer (www.sqlexplorer.io)
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Comment #48345367
Just sent you a DM on twitter!
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Comment #48345358
Refund policies are clearly documented in our terms. We actually DO offer refunds within 24hrs of credit purchase, which is significantly more flexible than most companies that ope…
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Comment #48345352
By default (and in most cases) investors and operators are aligned. When we diligence our investors, we call companies they worked with where things didn’t go well, and speak to th…
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Comment #48345335
Yep! Everyone wants a conspiracy, but what I originally posted is in fact the boring truth. Having a bunch of cash in the bank makes for a durable business!
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Comment #48345328
We have two mechanisms whereby we retain data. Both are opt-in and off by default. One mechanism where you get a discount and we can use the data (in theory this does mean sell it;…
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Comment #48345175
We have never sold any prompt data to anyone, in any form, and have no plans to do so. Full stop.
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Comment #48345166
Great investors are helpful, not harmful :) You want accountability from smart, experienced partners!
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Comment #48345146
Our general theory of the case is that, in the not so distant future, inference will be the second largest opex line item for most companies (behind headcount) and that sourcing, m…
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Comment #48345132
Interesting. Will look into it! We are releasing pass through API params soon which might hit the bid, but is a bit different than what you are describing.
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Comment #48345127
What differentiation are looking for? We have good documentation of every provider and what their data retention stance is, and you can figure allow/blocklists for all providers. C…
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Comment #48340940
Hi HN! OpenRouter co-founder and COO here. Lots of questions about why we raised! First off: We remain founder-led and founder-controlled, and intend on being here for a long time,…
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Comment #48340793
Thanks! We work really hard to make sure we are ready at launch :)
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Comment #48329885
(openrouter co-founder here) Yeah we should do something to indicate cardinality. I can share that there can often (I'm talking generally; not related to this model in particular) …
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Comment #48329874
Can you share more? I'm with OpenRouter and we would love to address this! We don't see this in our own testing, I don't believe -- but will share this feedback and dig in.
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Comment #47920314
Doesn’t it seem more plausible that the marketing shots are AI (where the “generated by AI” note appears) rather than the cover designs themselves?
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Comment #47702203
You are absolutely allowed to expose access to end users, as long as you continue to abide by terms of service. We have hundreds, if not thousands, of apps built on openrouter that…
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Comment #47701882
COO of OpenRouter here. Thats right — we haven’t done it to date but we can’t have unlimited liabilities stacking up forever. At some point we will start expiring credits from acco…
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Comment #47496731
I watched the video at the expecting one thing and finding something completely different. Remarkable — [0] watch the video in its entirety. Not what I thought when I read “staples…
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Comment #47363875
As per its own FAQ this plugin is out of date and doesn’t actually do anything incremental re:caching: > "Hasn't Anthropic's new auto-caching feature solved this?" > Largely, yes —…
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Comment #46712185
At the risk of totally misunderstanding this...it seems to be exfiltration by the app developer, who already has access to all of these data sources and the data that the customer …
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Comment #46331440
That is a way of doing that, but it's quite expensive computationally. There are some companies that can make it feasible [0], but it's often not a perfect process and different in…
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Comment #46331294
(I work at OpenRouter) If you send a PDF to our API we will: 1. Use native PDF parsing if the model supports it 2. Use this Mistral OCR model (we updated to this version yesterday)…
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