Stripe's OpenRouter deal, its largest-ever acquisition, is a bet on a future where users turn to a mix of AI models and gives it a foothold in the token market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-a-payments-giant-is-paying-7-billion-for-the-stripe-of-ai-f5832e54?st=V4TXLZ&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260820/i12.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260820/p12#a260820p12" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Kate Clark / <a href="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-a-payments-giant-is-paying-7-billion-for-the-stripe-of-ai-f5832e54?st=V4TXLZ&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">Stripe's OpenRouter deal, its largest-ever acquisition, is a bet on a future where users turn to a mix of AI models and gives it a foothold in the token market</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The Stripe deal for OpenRouter, founded by an NFT entrepreneur, is a bet on a future where users turn to a mix of AI models</p>