| ▲ | OpenRouter Raises $120M at a $1.3B Valuation(inc.com) |
| 10 points by ryanatallah 18 hours ago | 7 comments |
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| ▲ | njyx 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Super convenient for switching out models, and they also play a vetting function. Cool to see a useful service raising! |
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| ▲ | njyx 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | A little crazy that Google seems to be the lead investor though... |
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| ▲ | verdverm 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I was looking at OpenRouter earlier today, after becoming frustrated with VertexAI. Similar in that they offer a menu of many models, different in that Google is running them and OpenRouter is a proxy. If OpenRouter is not much more than a middle man, what business model are they raising money on? Surveillance? |
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| ▲ | dchest 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They are a marketplace for model providers, which is quite a nice business model. | | |
| ▲ | verdverm 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | Being the middleman is always nice until the need is obviated. My understanding is that this is largely used to cycle through free usage tiers without getting rate-limited. Anonymous Credentials is designed to end that. What makes this preferable to a self hosted or framework built-in version? https://blog.dock.io/anonymous-credentials/ | | |
| ▲ | hu3 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Convenience. They sell very convenient shovels in a goldrush. |
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| ▲ | polski-g 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They reduce friction to using different models and providers. Don't want to spend 4 hours getting an API key to use Google AI? Use openrouter Don't trust Chinese providers with your data? Use Openrouter and blacklist non-US inference providers. |
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