OpenRouter Valued at $1.3B After Year — Model Gateway Becomes Critical for Business

Friends, sharing AI news: OpenRouter raised $113M in a Series B and, per The New York Times, is valued at about $1.3B.

Key points:
- Founded in 2023, operates a unified model gateway offering access to 400+ models (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI, DeepSeek).
- Reports 8M users and 100 trillion tokens/month (~25T/week), 5× growth in six months.
- Gateway helps select models per task, optimize costs and raise inference accuracy.

Why it matters: the rise signals a move to multi‑model architectures and reduced dependence on single providers.

How do you assess the impact of multi‑model gateways on your company’s strategy?

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