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SCOUT· 38%49m·2026-08-31·MoneyStripe’s $7.5 Billion AI Bet: Why It Just Bought OpenRouter
Market Maker
Stripe has just made one of the biggest AI acquisitions yet, buying OpenRouter for around $7.5 billion — a company that was valued at just $1.3 billion only months earlier. So what exactly is Stripe buying, and why has OpenRouter become so valuable so quickly? In this episode of the Market Maker Podcast, Anthony…
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