OpenRouter Doubles to $1.3B While Big Labs Burn Cash
OpenRouter just doubled its valuation to $1.3 billion in under a year, and it doesn’t own a single GPU. While the big labs burn billions training models, this API gateway is quietly collecting a toll from all of them. Here’s why that’s the smarter business.
Anthropic Bought the Dev Tool OpenAI and Google Both Used
Anthropic paid over $500 million for the developer tools startup that OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare all depended on. The buyer just became the gatekeeper for tools its three biggest rivals cannot easily replace.