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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.
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
- Aug 16, 2026
- Detected
- just now
- Source
- community