Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

Stripe is buying OpenRouter for a reported $7.5 billion, far above its $1.3 billion May valuation, with founders receiving $1.5 billion and investors the remaining $6 billion. The acquisition gives Stripe a model-agnostic AI gateway that aligns with its developer base and lets it manage AI-related expenses, positioning it in the emerging AI capital-flow ecosystem.