Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter in potential $10B deal, WSJ reports

[nlpnerd]

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/stripe-talks-acquire-openrouter-potential-215104525.html

[nlpnerd]

Like what's the angle here, and what's the outlook for LLM routers like Openrouter to justify a 10B valuation?

Somebody enlighten me.

[andsoitis → nlpnerd]

OpenRouter is a marketplace (“OpenRouter, a fast-growing marketplace that enables developers to route traffic across various artificial intelligence models”).

Market places mean payments. Stripe does payments.

[nlpnerd → andsoitis]

That's a good point actually. I just recalled that Openrouter charges a premium of 5.5% on transactions. That's probably comparable or fat relative to the cut for payments processors like Stripe.