{"id":1030243,"date":"2026-08-21T08:20:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030243"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:00:32","slug":"payments-firm-stripe-to-buy-marketplace-openrouter-in-ai-push-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/21\/payments-firm-stripe-to-buy-marketplace-openrouter-in-ai-push-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Payments firm Stripe to buy marketplace OpenRouter in AI push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Payments firm Stripe said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy OpenRouter, which helps businesses route and optimize token usage, its latest bet on the fast-growing AI industry. <\/p>\n<p>While the companies did not disclose the value of the deal, a source familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential information, \u200ctold Reuters \u2060it was \u2060worth slightly more than $8 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The deal comes as soaring bills drive companies toward cheaper models \u200band routing tools like OpenRouter, and deepens a year-long push by the fintech into AI. \u200bThe push has included launching products like token billing to track AI model consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payments firm Stripe said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy OpenRouter, which helps businesses route and optimize token usage, its latest bet on the fast-growing AI industry. While the companies did not disclose the value of the deal, a source familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential information, \u200ctold Reuters \u2060it was \u2060worth slightly more than $8 billion. The deal comes as soaring bills drive companies toward cheaper models \u200band routing tools like OpenRouter, and deepens a year-long push by the fintech into AI. \u200bThe push has included launching products like token billing to track AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030263,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030243\/revisions\/1030263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}