2026-08-16Availability
Stripe finalizes $7B+ acquisition of OpenRouter
Payments giant Stripe agreed to buy AI model gateway OpenRouter for over $7 billion, months after the startup raised at a $1.3B valuation. OpenRouter routes 8M+ developers to 400+ models and takes ~5% of inference spend.
- Impact
- high
- Occurred
- 2026-08-16
- Source
- Communitytechcrunch.com