alt Hacker NewsHow can a middle man for api calls be worth so much? Their market share can’t be very large right? For comparison, $7B is more than market cap of Lyft, Dolby, and Alaska Airlines. What is happening?
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Taikhoom10 • today at 9:40 PM
Models are commodities, aggregators win, strategy wins - https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/why-openrouter-can-be-the-next-...
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codybontecou • today at 9:25 PM
LLM traces are supposedly very valuable. I imagine OpenRouter has one of the most extensive and diverse set of traces in the world.
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throwaway473825 • today at 9:27 PM
Cursor got bought for $60B. This is simply how AI companies are valued.
blitzar • today at 9:22 PM
If any of those companies put Ai into their pitch they too would be worth billions
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I'd suspect it's related to the rise of good/cheap Chinese models, and OpenRouter is the best way to use them without jumping through a ton of hoops.