Live on OpenRouter: @recraftai V4.1! Six new image generation models: V4.1 and V4.1 Pro for high aesthetics, V4.1 Vector and V4.1 Pro Vector for SVG illustration, and V4.1 Utility and V4.1 Utility Pro for restraint-first product imagery. Photorealism is more natural, gradients are smoother, and short prompts hit the mark with less hand-holding.

i had a BURNING question about ai models as an ex-pubg/apex comp player what if you threw them into a battle royale game, gave them the tool calls like attack(), walk(), etc, and let them go wild? well, today, "royale: last agent standing" answers this Q watch the games 👇🏻

To land a job in the age of AI, make a human connection. Build in public. Be persistent. Our AI-Native Builders sat down with @emmamariecryer, founding Business Development Representative at @OpenRouter, for a fireside chat led by Devika Gopal Agge, Chief Development & Employer Services Officer at Pursuit. OpenRouter is the API gateway connecting developers to 350+ AI models. Co-founder @alexatallah sits on Pursuit’s board, and the team has been a real partner to us. Emma came to AI without a computer science or software engineering degree. She studied humanities, trained as an actor, and produces short films on the side. She’s worked in business development for five years, now at OpenRouter working with the engineering and product teams at companies and universities building with frontier AI. Her advice to Builders looking to break in: “The bar has never been lower.” OpenRouter recently hired their second BDR. Out of thousands of applicants, only two reached out to Emma directly on LinkedIn. The one they hired didn’t pitch himself. He reached out like a person, showed her his work, and named the problem he could help solve. Then he kept following up, even when she didn’t reply. This is the humanist approach to employment in the age of AI. That story landed hard. Show, not tell. Build in public. Find the pain point at the company you want to join. Reach out like a person, not a transaction. Build a real connection. Then keep following up. And that’s what our Builders do. Thank you, Emma. The letters are coming. #Pursuit# #OpenRouter# #AI# #futureofwork# #tech#

Pareto Code is a new way of looking at the Pareto frontier using real market demand DeepSeek V4 Pro is taking the top position, followed by GPT 5.4 Mini and Gemini 3.1 Pro

OpenRouter has launched "Pareto Code" (openrouter/pareto-code), a free, experimental routing endpoint that automatically sends requests to the most cost-effective coding model capable of clearing a user-defined quality bar. For workflows where latency is more critical than pure cost savings, users can switch to the pareto-code:nitro variant. This ranks models within the selected capability band by measured throughput, forwarding requests to the fastest available model on the fly.

Introducing Pareto Code: a new, free, experimental coding router Set `min_coding_score` in your request and route to the cheapest code-capable model that clears your bar, ranked by @ArtificialAnlys. See the Pareto frontier shifting in real time👇

The new Hy3-Preview model from @TencentHunyuan is live for free on OpenRouter! It’s a 295B MoE model (21B active) with controllable reasoning effort. A cost-effective, practical model that performs strongly in coding agents and delivers comprehensive general capabilities.

Kimi K2.6 is live on OpenRouter! @Kimi_Moonshot's new model is a long-horizon coding model built for sustained agentic work. It behaves more like a systems engineer than a chatbot, with the stamina to decompose, execute, and optimize complex tasks. Try it in all your favorite agents!