OpenRouter launched new Gemini AI models
The new models offer high throughput and improved coding, knowledge, and multimodal performance.
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Unified access platform for large language models
openrouter.ai- Founded year
- 2023
- Company type
- Private company
- Number of employees
- 10–90
- Industry
- IT Services & Consulting
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Latest news about OpenRouter
In short: OpenRouter raised $113 million in Series B funding at a $1.3 billion valuation and saw its token usage surge, led by Chinese AI models.
Company announcements
OpenRouter launches Inkling model from Think Machines
It features 975B total parameters, 1M context, and controllable reasoning across text, images, and audio.
OpenRouter unifies all AI modalities under one API
The API supports endpoints for each modality, routing controls, and consolidated billing across hundreds of models.
OpenRouter launches GLM-5.2 from Zai_org
It features a 1M-token context window for long-horizon tasks.
Media coverage
OpenRouter financial data shows: If the acquisition goes through, Stripe's acquisition cost is high.
According to OpenRouter financial data obtained by insiders, if payment giant Stripe eventually acquires the three-year-old startup OpenRouter for nearly $10 billion, the valuation premium of this acquisition is extremely high, about 70 times the company's latest annualized revenue. OpenRouter provides application developers with a one-stop service to access hundreds of AI large models, with the latest annualized revenue of about $140 million, equivalent to monthly revenue of $12 million. Since April, the revenue scale has nearly tripled, while the startup's overall costs are controllable...
Chinese AI firms near OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenRouter usage triples
Chinese open-weight AI models, cheaper and rapidly advancing, are narrowing the gap with America’s frontier systems, threatening U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence.
Meta's AI Incubator Is Developing an OpenRouter Rival to Cut Coding Costs
Meta Platforms' internal incubator for AI-powered products and tools is developing a version of the OpenRouter service that would help cut costs by sending some...
Exclusive | Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter
The New York-based startup was most recently valued at $1.3 billion, but could fetch around $10...
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