Stripe is negotiating the acquisition of OpenRouter, with a value of about $10 billion

On 7 August, the financial technology company Stripe was negotiating an exclusive acquisition with OpenRouter, the AI Model Convergence Platform, with an estimated value of $10 billion. According to sources, OpenRouter had previously received a number of acquisitions from large technology companies, but Stripe is now in the exclusive negotiation phase. Related transactions have not yet been finalized and specific terms may still change. OpenRouter was established in 2023 as an AI infrastructure platform that connects users to multiple language models, allowing developers to call on AI models from multiple companies, including OpenAi, Anthropic, Google, through a single interface, and to choose different models according to performance, price and usability. If the transaction is completed, it will be one of the important layouts of Stripe in the AI field in recent years. The acquisition of OpenRouter may have given further impetus to the expansion of AI infrastructure。