The Router Is the Moat: What Stripe Paid $7.5B For
Rajeswaran Thangeswaran··13 min read·
#ai-infrastructure#model-routing#llm-costs#agents#openrouter

Stripe didn't buy a model. It bought the dispatcher. Inside the routing layer — price weighting, latency percentiles, fallback chains — and why being an AI user is no longer enough.
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