Why would they want openerouter though? doesn't make any sense - Stripe is in financial markets and openrouter is in ai right? can somoene explain this pls?
One may argue that they both are primarily in the "developer-centric API business". Also: massive payment volume that they can grab.
Haven't you heard, tokens are the future global currency for Intelligence ™
Openrouter is a payment processor for ai essentially, when you use the service they just act as a middleman so you don’t have to pay or setup with so many different vendors.