Stripe Reportedly Buys OpenRouter for $7 Billion, Betting Big on the AI Gateway Revolution

The artificial intelligence industry is entering a phase in which the most valuable companies may not be the ones building the biggest models, but the infrastructure providers that determine how businesses access, route, and pay for those models. That possibility is at the center of reports that Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. If…