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OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
OpenRouter's exit validates the model aggregation layer as infrastructure, not a crowded commodity. The timing matters: Stripe buying at $7B signals that multi-model routing is a defensible, high-margin business. For builders, this means the moat is in reliability and cost optimization, not model access. For founders, it's proof that the middleman play still works if you execute distribution and operations.