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OpenRouter raises $113M Series B
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Re: OpenRouter raises $113M Series B
#122An amazing service. I use its 20+ free LLM options to allow completely free usage of LibreOffice AI extension with no signup https://librethinker.com .
I'm banned from using the free options. At some point they flagged my account as having engaged in model training against their ToS. This despite my account using around £15 worth of tokens over several months, nearly entirely through BYOK providers. The handful of times I did try a free model is when I used their chat interface to quickly compare a few open weight models with a single prompt. That's the only usage I…
Since you're BYOK, have you tried self-hosting LiteLLM? It's what I use for the BYOK option on my service.
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#124Ok I’ve read the comments I still don’t see it. What’s the 113M in value add here?
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#125The moat will disappear in 1-2 years
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#126U can broadcast your tokens
I wonder how to do something with such data. Aside from greping for secrets
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#127It took me quite a while to come round to OpenRouter. Originally I didn't understand why anyone would put a proxy between them and an LLM, but it actually adds some quite significant value: 1. By far the lowest friction way to support and try out all the models. 2. They offer billing caps! Most model providers still don't do this [EDIT: maybe they do, see reply comment], but if you're going to run anything in public…
I’m just not sure they have a moat or a long term play? I put $20 in and tried a few models. Then I went right to the model provider to put in $1000 and avoid the middleman tax. Now imagine a big corp spending millions on AI. That’s a lot of middleman tax.
The top model / prices are changing all the time though. Lately I've been auditioning 4-5 models before a big ingest and I wouldn't be able to do that easily without OR.
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#128It took me quite a while to come round to OpenRouter. Originally I didn't understand why anyone would put a proxy between them and an LLM, but it actually adds some quite significant value: 1. By far the lowest friction way to support and try out all the models. 2. They offer billing caps! Most model providers still don't do this [EDIT: maybe they do, see reply comment], but if you're going to run anything in public…
I’m just not sure they have a moat or a long term play? I put $20 in and tried a few models. Then I went right to the model provider to put in $1000 and avoid the middleman tax. Now imagine a big corp spending millions on AI. That’s a lot of middleman tax.
And what do you do when Fireworks is down? If you stuck with Openrouter, when Fireworks is down it would auto route you to Friendli.
What if Fireworks stops offering your preferred model?
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Just curious, given the $113M investment, and the state of the economy as you described. Why don’t you build it then?
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#130The moat will disappear in 1-2 years
The real moat will be the user base they've built during that time. I could copy every feature of their website within a few weeks, but I couldn't copy that.