Tag: openrouter
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The Internet’s Favorite Mystery AI Finally Has a Name
For almost a week, half the AI world was trying to figure out who built the mystery model everyone was suddenly using. It showed up on OpenRouter on August 20 with no company name attached, and it did not stay quiet for long. Within days it had climbed to the top of OpenRouter’s usage leaderboard,…
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Stripe Just Spent $7 Billion on an AI Middleman
Stripe just paid more than seven billion dollars for a company most regular people have never heard of. OpenRouter is the switchboard sitting between your app and the AI model actually doing the work. Type into an app, and there is a decent chance OpenRouter quietly picked which model answered, based on cost, speed, or…