Stripe buys AI model router OpenRouter in reported $7.5B deal - SiliconANGLE

Stripe buys AI model router OpenRouter, reportedly $7.5bn+

Stripe buys OpenRouter for ~$7.5B, the router processing 10 trillion AI tokens daily across 400+ models. Multi-model routing becomes strategic infrastructure for optimizing AI costs, with Stripe extending payments dominance into token spending management.