OpenRouter
OpenRouter is a platform that routes developer requests to different AI models and tracks their usage metrics. The company operates as a multi-model inference marketplace offering access to various open-source and proprietary models, including recent releases from Moonshot AI, Tencent, and others, while also providing integration with developer platforms like Vercel. In 2025, OpenRouter raised $113 million in Series B funding, and Stripe has been negotiating to acquire the company for approximately $10 billion.
Updated 3 August 2026
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Latest developments
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Simon Willison · 2 days ago ·
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Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work?
The Batch ·
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moonshotai/Kimi-K3
Simon Willison · 6 days ago ·
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Announcing Fugu-Ultra v1.1 and Claude Code interface for Fugu
Sakana AI ·
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Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter
TLDR · 1 week ago ·
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Chinese Labs' Latest Product? Roleplay
ChinaTalk · 1 week ago ·
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You Didn’t Get the AI Model You Paid For
MarkTechPost · 1 week ago ·
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AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter
The Register · 3 weeks ago ·
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Q3 2026
DeepSeek releases V4-Flash-0731 with improved agentic capabilities through post-training optimization Model release
China regulates anthropomorphic AI services and emergence of facial data licensing marketplace Policy change
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, matching Fable 5 capabilities at half the price Model release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release
Tencent releases Hy3, a 295-billion-parameter open-source mixture-of-experts model with 256,000-token context length Open source release
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
- Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work?
- moonshotai/Kimi-K3
- Announcing Fugu-Ultra v1.1 and Claude Code interface for Fugu
- Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter
- Chinese Labs' Latest Product? Roleplay
- You Didn’t Get the AI Model You Paid For
- AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter
- Tencent Hy3 open model with 262K-token context window
- tencent/Hy3
Q2 2026
Relationships
Products & technology
- Deploys Kimi K3 · 1 source
Investment & ownership
- Stripe acquired this company · 1 source
- Menlo Ventures invests in this company · 1 source