Why Did Stripe Acquire an AI Model Routing Company?

(thefinancialengineer.substack.com)

6 points | by gemanor 4 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • simianwords 3 hours ago ago

    The article talks about

    1. Stripe's financial model

    2. Openrouter's value propostion as a service that exists in the market

    3. some vague analogies that tries to imply synergy

    Overall verdict: not convinced this article is high signal.

  • smashed 3 hours ago ago

    tl;dr: stripe sees tokens as the next currency and chose to buy their way in.