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Techmeme · Reported · Stripe

Stripe agrees to buy New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to investors (Erin Griffith/New York Times): Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, for $7.5B, with $1.5B going to founders and $6B to investors, a source says. The deal combines Stripe's payments business with OpenRouter's tools for managing spend across AI models. It gives Stripe a major presence in AI payments.

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Stripe agrees to buy New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to investors (Erin Griffith/New York Times): Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, for $7.5B, with $1.5B going to founders and $6B to investors, a source says. The deal combines Stripe's payments business with OpenRouter's tools for managing spend across AI models. It gives Stripe a major presence in AI payments.

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