Will Gaybrick(@gaybrick):Today we announced we're acquiring @OpenRouter. The line between intelligence and money is blurring: tokens are increasingly a general purpose currency, and we're all navigating—often suboptimally—a new intelligence pipeline that determines product quality, cost structure, and profitability. The best model for a workflow depends on latency, price, task complexity, and myriad other trade-offs that shift every time a new model drops. Stripe has always existed to help businesses grow by sanding friction and increasing agency related to money. Thanks to OpenRouter, as of today, that's money and tokens. To the whole OpenRouter team, welcome to Stripe. We’re delighted to build the economic infrastructure for AI with you.

2026.08.19 17:46

Today we announced we're acquiring @OpenRouter. The line between intelligence and money is blurring: tokens are increasingly a general purpose currency, and we're all navigating—often suboptimally—a new intelligence pipeline that determines product quality, cost structure, and profitability. The best model for a workflow depends on latency, price, task complexity, and myriad other trade-offs that shift every time a new model drops. Stripe has always existed to help businesses grow by sanding friction and increasing agency related to money. Thanks to OpenRouter, as of today, that's money and tokens. To the whole OpenRouter team, welcome to Stripe. We’re delighted to build the economic infrastructure for AI with you.