Jen(@BackseatVC):Been lucky to have crossed paths with @alexatallah in crypto days, and super excited to work with the OpenRouter team! Thought this quote from Patrick summarized things well: "Stripe is building the economic infrastructure for AI, and together with OpenRouter we’ll help businesses maximize profitability by routing their requests intelligently and spending their tokens efficiently."

2026.08.19 18:58

Been lucky to have crossed paths with @alexatallah in crypto days, and super excited to work with the OpenRouter team! Thought this quote from Patrick summarized things well: "Stripe is building the economic infrastructure for AI, and together with OpenRouter we’ll help businesses maximize profitability by routing their requests intelligently and spending their tokens efficiently."

Patrick Collison@patrickc

2026.08.19 17:13

OpenRouter is joining Stripe: As anyone who uses it knows, @OpenRouter is a truly delightful developer tool. It is by far the best way to use new models and manage multiple inference providers. OpenRouter is also playing an increasingly important role: in the future, every business will have to manage both revenue flows and token flows. OpenRouter is the world's leading token marketplace, helping businesses effectively allocate the new currency of intelligence capital. We think that there's a lot to build together.