"Stripe has signed a deal to acquire OpenRouter. Together, they become the trusted, scaled, and performant network where the world’s AI companies exchange intelligence. This is a good thing for everybody, and it comes not a moment too soon. Model companies (both closed and open source) are in a generational Red Queen’s race of getting smarter and faster. Meanwhile, application companies are experiencing a Cambrian explosion of possibility, if only the infrastructure can keep up. OpenRouter and Stripe, working together, cements a pillar of AI’s economic infrastructure in a way where everyone wins big." "I have never seen anything in my career like what I’ve seen in the past 24 months. The sheer amount of value creation, in matters of months, by companies like OpenRouter is going to go in the economic history books. OpenRouter, A Stripe Company, is genuinely just scratching the surface of its potential as one of the network exchange layers of the internet. Kudos to Stripe for creating the perfect place for them to accelerate into the next leg of their journey." OpenRouter & Stripe: The Intelligence Network, by @martin_casado: https://www.a16z.news/p/openrouter-and-stripe-the-intelligence(a16z)