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20VC: Will OpenRouter Sell for $10BN to Stripe? | Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating America—and What Happens Next | Why Enterprises Are More Fearful of Anthropic and OpenAI Than China | Is the Routing Layer Becoming a Commodity with Alex Atallah
Alex Atallah argues OpenRouter is building a durable routing layer for a fast-changing, multi-model AI market, not a commodity middleware business. He also says US open models are lagging China, but enterprises fear frontier-model data policies more than Chinese models, and OpenRouter’s value grows as switching, failover, and safety become more important.
