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  3. Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.

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By Julie Bort

20 August 2026|1 min read|TechCrunch
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