sscaryterry
12 hours ago
If this is the case, I'll be moving somewhere else.
colesantiago
12 hours ago
Where?
Is Stripe that bad?
sscaryterry
12 hours ago
I don't know where. Monopolies, buyouts by big companies like that just stifle competition.
magicalhippo
11 hours ago
Why would Stripe want to buy OpenRouter except to lock down the payment processor of a popular and potentially quite large customer if AI doesn't crash somehow?
I mean there's skimming the free training data from the "free" models but surely that's not their primary intention.
Locking down the payment processor can never be a good thing for customers.
kgwgk
11 hours ago
> Why would Stripe want to buy OpenRouter except to lock down the payment processor
To become an API processor in addition to a payment processor. To take a cut of token dollars like they take a cut of payment dollars. To get investors excited for the IPO because AI.