A company worth $1.3B in May just sold for $7.5B in August. It doesn't train a single model. Stripe bought OpenRouter — the layer that routes AI requests to whichever model is cheapest and fastest. 10 trillion tokens a day, 10M users. Everyone argued about who builds the best model. The money went to whoever controls where the tokens flow. Stop hard-coding one provider. Route by task. Daily AI signal: www.contentbuffer.com Which AI layer is most undervalued right now — routing, evals, or data? #AI #Stripe #OpenRouter #AIInfrastructure #TechNews #LLM #ContentBuffer