Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10B

jjulien_c about 2 hours ago 6 commentsRead Article on twitter.com

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woeirua•16 minutes ago

I don’t get it. There’s no moat here. OpenRouter isn’t hard to rebuild.

IronWolve•about 1 hour ago

I've used openrouter, they work well, it was easy to use. Swipe wants to be used for agent payments, seems like a good match for them.

otterley•about 2 hours ago

Assuming this is true: But why? And how is this valuation justified?

random3•about 1 hour ago

To ensure agents are paid through them and maintain market position https://stripe.com/blog/giving-agents-the-ability-to-pay

prtmnth•about 1 hour ago

See projects.dev by Stripe. My best hunch is - Stripe wants to get in on the infrastructure/rails layers being built for AI. They aren't sure what that is going to be exactly (nobody does). OpenRouter seems like a safe bet.

anukin•about 1 hour ago

Stripe controls parts of APIs for money movement across world. This is just a logical extension to that.