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Stripe bets that an AI world still needs middlemen
Financial Times Technology
Factual evidence
What the source reports
Stripe acquires model routing platform OpenRouter to strengthen its infrastructure positioning in the AI developer ecosystem.
Open sourceOneBench interpretation
Institutional assessment
So what
Payment gateways consolidating LLM routing layers signals enterprise multi-model orchestration is moving into core transactional infrastructure.
Do what
Ask your enterprise architecture team to evaluate in-house model routing protocols against third-party aggregator lock-in risks.