BlockBeats News, August 7th. According to The Information, the fintech company Stripe is in exclusive acquisition talks with the AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter, with the deal estimated at around $10 billion. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that OpenRouter had previously received acquisition interest from several large tech companies, but currently, Stripe has entered into exclusive negotiations. The specifics of the transaction have not been finalized yet, and the terms are subject to change.

Founded in 2023, OpenRouter is positioned as an AI infrastructure platform that connects users with various large language models. It allows developers to access AI models from multiple companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, through a unified API and choose different models based on performance, price, and availability.

If the deal goes through, it will mark one of the significant AI-related moves by Stripe in recent years. While previously focused on payment infrastructure, financial services, and enterprise software, acquiring OpenRouter may further propel its expansion into the AI developer infrastructure space.