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ai morning #52 — stripe acquires openrouter and declares the singularity has begun
Stripe bought the world's largest AI model-routing layer. The deal hands one company visibility into both the cost and the revenue side of every AI application on earth. Within hours, a prominent AI researcher publicly disputed the singularity framing attached to the announcement. Builders are asking who their new landlord is.
Marcus walks through what happened, why Chollet called Stripe out by name, and what it means for founders routing traffic through OpenRouter today.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:21 Stripe buys OpenRouter — Stripe acquires the 10T-token/day model router and calls Q1…
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