Why Did Stripe Acquire an AI Model Routing Company?

(thefinancialengineer.substack.com)

7 points | by gemanor 6 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • simianwords 5 hours ago

    The article talks about

    1. Stripe's financial model

    2. Openrouter's value propostion as a service that exists in the market

    3. some vague analogies that tries to imply synergy

    Overall verdict: not convinced this article is high signal.

  • smashed 5 hours ago

    tl;dr: stripe sees tokens as the next currency and chose to buy their way in.