7B for a wrapper.
Stripe is a wrapper too. Single API key and unified DX atop a world of divergent providers.
Adding support to yet another LLM API provider is order of magnitude easier (at least) than adding anything in finance domain
Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B
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#12The harness is the router. I don't understand this.
Re: Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B
#137B for a wrapper.
Stripe isn’t exactly a dumb company. When someone smart does something seemingly super dumb, more likely than not you’re the one missing something, not them. It’s an opportunity to ask, “what am I missing?”, and learn from it.
> Stripe isn’t exactly a dumb company.
I guess hardly anybody claims that. I think the suspicion is rather about whether there exist some other "puppetmasters" (e.g. venture capitalists) who pressured Stripe into buying OpenRouter.
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#147B for a wrapper.
Stripe isn’t exactly a dumb company. When someone smart does something seemingly super dumb, more likely than not you’re the one missing something, not them. It’s an opportunity to ask, “what am I missing?”, and learn from it.
I didn't say it was super dumb, it was more of a reflection on that's how much a wrapper is worth today.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stripe isn’t exactly a dumb company. When someone smart does something seemingly super dumb, more likely than not you’re the one missing something, not them. It’s an opportunity to ask, “what am I missing?”, and learn from it.
I didn't say it was super dumb, it was more of a reflection on that's how much a wrapper is worth today.
> I didn't say it was super dumb, it was more of a reflection on that's how much a wrapper is worth today.
Are you sure that the value is in the wrapper and not rather in the fact that investors who invested into OpenRouter also invested into companies that can buy OpenRouter? ;-)
(see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330668 ).
Re: Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B
#16If LLM providers continue grow and become such a standard part of the tech stack of any deployment, this acquisition makes a lot of sense. It's just another payment management system for stripe. It's fun to see someone being able to exit so well without owning any model.
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#17If LLM providers continue grow and become such a standard part of the tech stack of any deployment, this acquisition makes a lot of sense. It's just another payment management system for stripe. It's fun to see someone being able to exit so well without owning any model.
The acquisition makes no sense, as most LLM providers only reason not to forbid them right now, is because they were funded by exactly the same VCs as the providers. Go check. Of all the no moats they are the example of no moat . Its seconds switch to another router if even that is tolerated. And lets not even talk, the lack of compliance in an enterprise environment, and as they defer to providers on that... But the…
> And lets not even talk, the lack of compliance in an enterprise environment, and as they defer to providers on that...
A middleman that adds compliance & regulation while skimming a slice off the top for themselves: You just described credit cards - stripe's core business...
Re: Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B
#18I was more skeptical of openrouter a year ago. Not hard to implement multiple models, but after getting burned multiple times (eg Google in particular) I see openrouter as serving a few key functions: (1) aggregating demand across neoclouds for performance etc (2) providing a great developer experience (3) easily switching models and normalizing the idiosyncratic nature of each. There are so many (good) model providers today this is more compelling now with 10+ solid model companies than a year ago when I thought it might be just 3.
So I have shifted load away from calling some models to openrouter.
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