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47.1 billion! The world’s largest big model agency sold out
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Source: zhidx.com
Compiled by Zhidongzhi | Edited by Cheng Qian | Li Shuiqing Zhidongxi reported on August 17 that just now, according to foreign media Bloomberg, the American financial technology company Stripe has reached an acquisition agreement with the top large model transfer station OpenRouter. The acquisition price exceeds 7 billion US dollars (approximately RMB 47.192 billion). Based on current publicly available transactions, this acquisition of over US$7 billion is expected to set a record for AI model routing platform mergers and acquisitions. People familiar with the matter said the final price of the acquisition may change. Stripe and OpenRouter declined to comment. OpenRouter is the largest large model API aggregation gateway (commonly known as "large model intermediary") in the managed SaaS form for global developers. Compared with players such as Together AI, Cloudflare AI Gateway, and Requesty.ai, OpenRouter's token throughput, number of access models, and global developer scale are all at the leading level in this segment, and it has now become a benchmark for observing the actual use of global large models. The popularity of the platform is growing day by day. In May this year, OpenRouter announced that its platform's weekly token processing volume has surged from 5 trillion to 5 times the previous level, reaching 25 trillion. Based on this estimate, its monthly token processing volume can reach 100 trillion. According to the current growth rate, the company believes that the total number of tokens processed this year is expected to exceed 1 trillion, and it can provide services to more than 8 million developers. OpenRouter was founded in 2023, co-founded by Alex Atallah and Louis Vichy, and is headquartered in New York, USA. The company’s CEO Alex Atallah once co-founded OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT platform, and exited before the bubble burst, switching to the AI track. The company's main business helps customers choose different AI models to perform different tasks based on their own needs and budgets.