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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
TL;DRStripe acquired OpenRouter; the "singularity" reasoning was marketing fluff.
Why it matters: Understanding Stripe's actual AI strategy reveals how payments infrastructure is repositioning for multi-model AI integration.
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.
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