[Stripe Acquires AI Company OpenRouter for Over $7 Billion] According to reports from CLS, on August 16 local time, sources revealed that payment service provider Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire AI startup OpenRouter for over $7 billion. The final acquisition price may still be subject to change. OpenRouter provides developers with a unified API aggregation platform, enabling access to hundreds of different open-source and closed-source AI large language models through a single interface.