OpenRouter Reportedly in an $8B+ Deal as AI Access Becomes Infrastructure

Axios-sourced reporting points to a multibillion-dollar deal for the model-routing layer, underscoring how model access itself has become critical plumbing.

AI model access is quietly maturing into serious infrastructure. @holdapi pointed to an Axios report of an $8B+ deal involving OpenRouter, the service that lets developers route requests across many different models through a single interface.

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