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Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, a deal confirmed in a joint statement. The startup routes over 10 trillion tokens daily for 10 million developers. Founders receive $1.5 billion while investors get $6 billion. This acquisition gives Stripe control over AI model routing.
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