Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10B

Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10B(twitter.com)

14 points by julien_c 2 hours ago | 4 comments

otterley 1 hour ago |

Assuming this is true: But why? And how is this valuation justified?

random3 1 hour ago | |

To ensure agents are paid through them and maintain market position https://stripe.com/blog/giving-agents-the-ability-to-pay

prtmnth 1 hour ago | |

See projects.dev by Stripe. My best hunch is - Stripe wants to get in on the infrastructure/rails layers being built for AI. They aren't sure what that is going to be exactly (nobody does). OpenRouter seems like a safe bet.

anukin 1 hour ago | |

Stripe controls parts of APIs for money movement across world. This is just a logical extension to that.