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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town Sep 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:04 Rory O'Driscoll You know, there's things like the, was it the open router report, things like that index of token pricing.
  • ▶ 53:49 Jason Lemkin It worked, it worked, it seemed to work at open router and there's plenty of deals where the leaking has become part of the, part of the strategy, right?

NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation Sep 3, 2026 · 2 mentions

ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern Aug 31, 2026 · 1 mention

Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive Aug 29, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 26:24 Harry Stebbings And OpenRooter gets bought for eight billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:55 Eno Reyes They'll look at RAMP and Stripe and Open Router, and they'll put a model gateway, and that gateway is just how all of the different tools and products of the company route to LLMs.
  • ▶ 38:46 Eno Reyes Uh, and this actually gets to another interesting property of like the open routers.

Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated Aug 27, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 31:02 Jason Lemkin And, um, obviously we've talked about open router.
  • ▶ 42:38 Rory O'Driscoll I think it's kind of a muchness with, frankly, the poolside and the open router thing, which is everyone's, I mean, look, I think it all goes together. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:00:18 Rory O'Driscoll I think that what they were saying and why they bought OpenRouter is people are going to have to control intelligence
  • ▶ 1:10:13 Rory O'Driscoll It sounds like some of the open router stuff was stock.

The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock Aug 22, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 36:17 Jerry Murdock My opinion is open router has massive amounts of transactions because people are basically lazy, right? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:24 Jerry Murdock If OpenRouter gets a ten billion dollar, you know, bid from Stripe, you take it.

Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue? Aug 20, 2026 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Open Ruda, seven billion dollar acquisition by the Irish Paulson brothers.
  • ▶ 15:58 Harry Stebbings It's not quite the ten billion dollars that was reported, but OpenRuda, seven billion dollar acquisition by the Irish Paulson brothers, Brewery or Brethren. 13 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:09 Jason Lemkin I'm not saying, listen, if you're, if you're open router, you didn't even have a 27 roadmap.
  • ▶ 50:44 Rory O'Driscoll You see cursor for details, see open router for details, right? 3 times in the scene

OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic Aug 9, 2026 · 30 mentions

  • ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Today we have Alex Attala, co-founder and CEO of OpenRouter, the unified interface, the gateway to the world of LLMs. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:16 Harry Stebbings Now, I want to start with a little bit pre OpenRouter and start on OpenSea. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:56 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, when you go back to the founding thesis of the company, what has happened in the ecosystem, in the model landscape that you did not expect to happen? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:49 Harry Stebbings Is that good for an open router business or not? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:07 Alex Atallah And so, like, open router is fundamentally about giving people more choice because that gives them more leverage.
  • ▶ 18:18 Alex Atallah And if you, if you have your own inference, like if you bring your own inference to open router, if you bring your own keys, um, that fee goes away. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:36 Alex Atallah Uh, GBT, 5.6 Luna on open router. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:26 Harry Stebbings Because a lot of people, when I say, oh, the top five models, when I look at open router are all Chinese. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 54:15 Alex Atallah Model from open router and, and then have the orchestrator model, read the results, and then go and continue working on the like unknown non-deterministic task that it was set out to do.
  • ▶ 1:01:46 Harry Stebbings What is the most underrated model on OpenRouter today?

Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B Aug 5, 2026 · 2 mentions

Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market Aug 2, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 5:18 Anastasios Angelopoulos So first thing I'll say is that the open router metrics are not truly reflective of reality, and that's because the business route, the business model of open router is to charge, uh, like a fraction, uh, uh, like a fee on top of every… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:03 Harry Stebbings We spoke about OpenRouter earlier, and it seems like since the announcement that they were getting bored, everyone just has their own routing product.

Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks Jul 29, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:47 Jason Lemkin I don't see any cost advantages, but putting that aside, if almost half of open routers traffic is to open source, open weight models, it's left the stable.
  • ▶ 1:13:23 Harry Stebbings Will the open router deal happen?
  • ▶ 1:13:48 Rory O'Driscoll What Open Router does for LLMs, what Stripe does for money, and what Twilio does for telecoms. 4 times in the scene

Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy Jul 27, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 23:18 Matt Murphy And so I'm also on the board of Open Router, a company that you all talk about quite a bit, and I love hearing you guys mention them.
  • ▶ 28:56 Harry Stebbings And, and Nebius said they were moving into the open router business and would actively 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:11 Harry Stebbings You've got Anthropic, you've got Lovable, you've got Ligora, you've got Open Router, you've got Fireworks, you've got, the list goes on and on and on of great companies.
  • ▶ 50:14 Matt Murphy Like that's over 50 companies, somewhere between a hundred K and one million where you kind of get in a seed round and the companies that have graduated out of that have been open router, whisper, axiom math.
  • ▶ 1:03:24 Matt Murphy You need something like open router.

Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal Jul 23, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings We have RAMP, releasing an OpenRouter competitor, just as OpenRouter are supposedly about to get bought.
  • ▶ 2:40 Jason Lemkin I mean, if you look at, uh, you know, if you look at open router data, half the traffic's through China, China created models, even China models is a confusing term, right?
  • ▶ 19:35 Harry Stebbings You know, a story, and I'm kind of throwing it in here as a wedge, but when we talk about all the different models that we have on offer, one of the big kind of gossip stories or breakouts this week in terms of news stories was the… 6 times in the scene

The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao Jul 20, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:29 Harry Stebbings When you look at Open Rooster, I think the top six models today are Chinese models, and they're incredible quality.
  • ▶ 30:32 Harry Stebbings With that in mind, will you not build your own open router of the world to cater to that? 2 times in the scene

⁠Why OpenAI and Anthropic Won't Win the App Layer | Glean Founder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:18 Harry Stebbings Do you worry then when you look at the state, you know, I, I spend a lot of time on Open Router, and I see the model usage in traffic, and like, you know, Anthropic today was first US model, it was seventh, the first six were Chinese.

Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 55:03 Harry Stebbings The top six models as of today on open router are Chinese.
  • ▶ 1:02:36 unnamed speaker It may well be in two years' time that, you know, you didn't need to pay that tax, but right now, if, if the only way to solve the problem is with the frontier model and the problems we're solving, you're going to pay for it, which is why,…

Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:57 Mike Mignano And so you're going to have companies that are singularly focused on this companies like open router,

DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 25, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:52 unnamed speaker So should your number three, forget about the fact in theory with open router and others, you could route to 10,000 models. 2 times in the scene

Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 15, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 45:31 Harry Stebbings When we look at the model selection companies, like an open router or like Factory AI just released that kind of model selection or model routing product. 6 times in the scene

Nebius Co-Founder on AI Infrastructure Bubbles | How Price Elastic is Demand for Compute · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 8, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:19 Jason Calacanis Versus models used for software development and for applications, anyone, every, every, I mean, this is open router blowing up.

OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 28, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 1:05:11 Harry Stebbings Today, Open Router announced their round, which was, I think, one hundred and fifty million at a 1.3 billion led by Capital G. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:19:23 unnamed speaker And actually, I think I could be wrong on the open router thing is that kind of a model switching layer could be two of those things that every, when you look back five years from now, every app company either building a third party app

OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 9, 2026 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 48:08 Harry Stebbings Open router. 13 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:31:47 unnamed speaker That's, that's how the math, it kind of ties back to our open route or another conversation.

Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:34 unnamed speaker If you look at open routers data, it has exploded since the start of the year. 3 times in the scene

Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 19, 2026 · 1 mention

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