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The gateway in front of your model calls is reportedly being bought for $7 billion.
Bloomberg reports that Stripe has finalised an acquisition of OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, five times the valuation set in May by its $113 million Series B. OpenRouter claims 8 million users and access to more than 400 models, and its chief executive has described the company as the equivalent of Stripe for AI because it gives one access point across providers and prevents lock-in. Stripe says it does not comment on rumours or speculation, so neither company has confirmed the deal.
A 27B open-weight model can drive your agent loop, but not at the setting it ships with.
Simon Willison ran Qwen 3.8 27B through a coding agent loop in the Pi framework and found its tool calling reliable and its vision strong at bounding boxes, across a 262,144-token context. The model ships defaulting to xhigh reasoning, which took 21 minutes to generate an SVG that took 137 seconds with reasoning switched off, at comparable quality. His advice is to run it on low or no reasoning first.
The discounted API credits on offer are resold, and your requests run through someone else's account.
A secondary market resells unused OpenAI, Anthropic and Google credits at 30 to 80 percent off list, through marketplaces, Telegram channels, Reddit groups and bulk-discount routers such as CheapCredits, Tokvana and Neokens. Brokers commonly route requests through their own proxy endpoints rather than transferring keys, which puts your prompts through an account you do not control and outside the provider's normal controls.
