Is the Open in OpenRouter the same as in Open AI? I couldn’t find any repository or hosted code. Thought it'd be a open source, self hostable tool with a cloud offering but seems its just the latter?

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alecco 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I assumed they were open source but now that I checked they are not, they say "Open" because they route to third-party open models. Yikes. Another VC crap layer?

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bijowo1676 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

tbh anyone can rig up something like openrouter in a few nights with claude code.

its just a proxy

	▲	kvirani 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Today your statement is a little too ambitious but I agree with the overall point that the inherent effort based moat in SaaS is mostly gone and now it is really about personalizing your own. The most common counter-argument that I've seen here is " Yes, but no organization wants to manage all of their different operational tools. They would rather just outsource that responsibility to third-party entities". I'm not sure I fully agree with that counter. Because agents can be viewed as third party entities in some sense. If not today then maybe soon.

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omneity 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Open in OpenRouter is the same as in OpenSea, as it's the same founder. Make of that what you will.

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m1keil 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Open as in single API layer which allows you to swap the model under it.