Stripe Nears Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter for over $7B(news.bloomberglaw.com)
8 pointsby kgwgk3 hours ago1 comment
  • sscaryterry3 hours ago
    If this is the case, I'll be moving somewhere else.
    • colesantiago3 hours ago
      Where?

      Is Stripe that bad?

      • sscaryterry3 hours ago
        I don't know where. Monopolies, buyouts by big companies like that just stifle competition.
      • magicalhippo2 hours ago
        Why would Stripe want to buy OpenRouter except to lock down the payment processor of a popular and potentially quite large customer if AI doesn't crash somehow?

        I mean there's skimming the free training data from the "free" models but surely that's not their primary intention.

        Locking down the payment processor can never be a good thing for customers.

        • kgwgk2 hours ago
          > Why would Stripe want to buy OpenRouter except to lock down the payment processor

          To become an API processor in addition to a payment processor. To take a cut of token dollars like they take a cut of payment dollars. To get investors excited for the IPO because AI.