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

(finance.yahoo.com)

12 points | by nlpnerd 10 hours ago ago

4 comments

  • nlpnerd 10 hours ago ago

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

    Somebody enlighten me.

    • andsoitis 10 hours ago ago

      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.

      • nlpnerd 10 hours ago ago

        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.

      • catlover76 9 hours ago ago

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