Zaddycoin(@zaddycoin):Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face for $12.9B. A few days ago Stripe bought OpenRouter for $7B. Both are AI layers routing spend away from OpenAI and Anthropic. Visa's Head of Crypto Cuy Sheffield on why that layer had to exist: "But then you have this like structural conflict that, you know, if you're Anthropic or if you're OpenAI, like it's not in your interest to like make it super easy for people to like reduce and optimize their token spend by routing away to like cheaper models" "And I think companies like OpenRouter are building amazing products to have like a single integration that can then give you access to 200 plus models"

2026.08.27 19:19

Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face for $12.9B. A few days ago Stripe bought OpenRouter for $7B. Both are AI layers routing spend away from OpenAI and Anthropic. Visa's Head of Crypto Cuy Sheffield on why that layer had to exist: "But then you have this like structural conflict that, you know, if you're Anthropic or if you're OpenAI, like it's not in your interest to like make it super easy for people to like reduce and optimize their token spend by routing away to like cheaper models" "And I think companies like OpenRouter are building amazing products to have like a single integration that can then give you access to 200 plus models"