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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’: What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.

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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’: What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.