Steven Gonsalvez

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(AINews) Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B

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OpenRouter acquisition by Stripe; LLM infrastructure shift

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[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution. TheInformation had the scoop last month, but OpenRouter’s acquisition by Stripe for $7B was seems all but closed this weekend, 90 days after their $1.3B Series B. Their last revenue number out there was $140m annualized, so this represents a “standard” 50x multiple for a top tier AI company. What’s incredible is the profitability: Although much smaller than Cursor, OpenRouter likely has better economics. Its costs to serve its model-routing product were recently about $40 millio

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