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[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B
Stripe is betting that the real moat in AI is distribution and orchestration, not models. OpenRouter's value sits between the foundation model layer and applications: you route requests across Claude, GPT, and others based on latency, cost, and capability. This signals that model interoperability is becoming a product, not an afterthought. For infrastructure builders: agnosticism is defensible.