Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10B(twitter.com)
18 pointsby julien_c3 hours ago3 comments
  • woeiruaan hour ago
    I don’t get it. There’s no moat here. OpenRouter isn’t hard to rebuild.
  • IronWolve2 hours 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.
  • otterley3 hours ago
    Assuming this is true: But why? And how is this valuation justified?
    • random33 hours ago
      To ensure agents are paid through them and maintain market position https://stripe.com/blog/giving-agents-the-ability-to-pay
    • prtmnth3 hours 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.
    • anukin3 hours ago
      Stripe controls parts of APIs for money movement across world. This is just a logical extension to that.