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I guess this kind of pay makes sense when you're buying a platform many people are using g as a core part of their AI implementations. Still seems like Stripe payed too much though at 7x.

>OpenRouter now processes more than 10 trillion tokens a day and serves upward of 10 million developers, with customers that include Nvidia, Zoom, and Lovable.

OpenAI had 4 million paid users not long ago, Open router claims 10 million developers not normal users. One is worth supposedly 1 trillion, the other 7 billion! This is the new math done with AI I guess, but smth is wrong.

News from 2 months ago OP;

Any reason for the share today?

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364559

See more comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364559

Why would they want openerouter though? doesn't make any sense - Stripe is in financial markets and openrouter is in ai right? can somoene explain this pls?

Openrouter is a payment processor for ai essentially, when you use the service they just act as a middleman so you don’t have to pay or setup with so many different vendors.

Haven't you heard, tokens are the future global currency for Intelligence ™

One may argue that they both are primarily in the "developer-centric API business". Also: massive payment volume that they can grab.