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Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter in potential $10B deal, WSJ reports

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Re: Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter in potential $10B deal, WSJ reports

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Like what's the angle here, and what's the outlook for LLM routers like Openrouter to justify a 10B valuation? Somebody enlighten me.

OpenRouter is a marketplace (“OpenRouter, a fast-growing marketplace that enables developers to route traffic across various artificial intelligence models”).

Market places mean payments. Stripe does payments.

Re: Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter in potential $10B deal, WSJ reports

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Like what's the angle here, and what's the outlook for LLM routers like Openrouter to justify a 10B valuation? Somebody enlighten me.

OpenRouter is a marketplace (“OpenRouter, a fast-growing marketplace that enables developers to route traffic across various artificial intelligence models”). Market places mean payments. Stripe does payments.

That's a good point actually. I just recalled that Openrouter charges a premium of 5.5% on transactions. That's probably comparable or fat relative to the cut for payments processors like Stripe.

Re: Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter in potential $10B deal, WSJ reports

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post #2

Like what's the angle here, and what's the outlook for LLM routers like Openrouter to justify a 10B valuation? Somebody enlighten me.

OpenRouter is a marketplace (“OpenRouter, a fast-growing marketplace that enables developers to route traffic across various artificial intelligence models”). Market places mean payments. Stripe does payments.

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