Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B

(wsj.com)

45 points | by htrp 6 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • chromatin 5 hours ago

    Extremely relevant:

    Ramp Router: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987253

  • BobbyTables2 3 hours ago

    Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just spend $1B reimplementing it?

    (Of course that is absurd, $10M would be plenty)

    • sds357 3 hours ago

      The value is in the existing customers, isn't it? Not so much the product.

  • Taikhoom2010 5 hours ago
    • evenhash 5 hours ago

      > it has clear platform dynamics. It is an aggregator of AI models, and once enterprises use it, that creates switching costs since all your AI expense is in one place: logs, budgets, etc, so switching would be painful and generally not make a lot of sense.

      Clearly what we need is a Router Router, to avoid router lock-in.

      • jackb4040 3 hours ago

        You jest but this is basically exactly what happened in crypto.

  • subarctic 5 hours ago

    Interesting. I guess it fits since Openrouter's main value is in consolidating payment to all these different model providers

  • thomasingalls 5 hours ago

    Do they have to

  • zb3 4 hours ago

    Does it mean openrouter can't sustain on its own? If so, bad news, new owner 'd surely want it to be profitable, so expect price hike.. :<

  • fractorial 2 hours ago

    Please, no.