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OpenRouter is joining Stripe

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Post by DrewADesign »

oblio wrote: post #387
DrewADesign wrote: post #380

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I'm always surprised at how many people in the tech sector assume overcoming fundamental LLM weaknesses is always “just a matter of time,” and that time will arrive quickly enough to be relevant. If you haven’t seen any of the videos of people trying to get frontier LLMs to count consistently, you might think we’re further from LLM accountant than you realize. It’s not a data problem— I’m pretty sure they’ve encounte…

> I'm always surprised at how many people in the tech sector assume overcoming fundamental LLM weaknesses is always “just a matter of time,” and that time will arrive quickly enough to be relevant. Lots of techies are tech-optimists ("tech always improves quickly"). Lots of people also have dollar signs in their eyes (or related, such as increased visibility and scope). Hard to tell which is which.

I think those are more like two facets in the crowd rather than two distinct crowds. Almost all idealist tech industry workers in column A that believe this is the future of the tech business would also fit into column B. Column B folks believing this business isn’t a fantastically expensive mass delusion event (with regard to the financial impact predictions) would essentially fit into column a. Most that wouldn’t would probably be Wall Street types that told Leopold Aschenbrenner to get bent rather than handing him billions of dollars on blind faith.

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Post by micromacrofoot »

mpalmer wrote: post #521
micromacrofoot wrote: post #486

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open has at least a dozen meanings

Which ones do you suppose they want their users to think of in connection with them?

open as in "available" not "transparent," their homepage headline is "The Unified Interface For Every Model"

likely piggybacking on the Open in OpenAI which is also not open source

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Post by pbreit »

michaelt wrote: post #433
pbreit wrote: post #408

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This seems like something xAi could reproduce in a weekend

The other thing OpenRouter gets you is: Access to loads of models via a common API/sign-up/prepayment mechanism. I want to know which vendor/model does best at my extracting-facts-from-text task? Which does best at my OCR-a-text-document task? Which can deal with a safe-for-work beach photo without a censorship system false alarm? OpenRouter lets me run my tests against openai and anthropic and google and x and byted…

The other thing is, aren't the models mostly indistinguishable at this point?

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Post by nateb2022 »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #137
nateb2022 wrote: post #114

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OpenRouter already takes in around $140M in yearly revenue. How would paying 5% of yearly revenue make any sense for an acquisition??

> How would paying 5% of yearly revenue make any sense for an acquisition?? 50x revenue is also a crazy number. I wonder what happens more, companies selling for ≤5% revenue or companies selling for ≥50x revenue.

Well OpenRouter went from ~$5M in mid 2025 to ~$140M about a year later, so although 50x might be compared to current revenue, they probably factored in some growth models to approximate its value over time.
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