OpenRouter
also referred to as: open router
5 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 1, 2025 by Shawn Wang · said 49 times in 17 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Deedy Das (15), Shawn Wang (14), Rob Haisfield (3), Sherwin Wu (2), Saoud (Saud) Rizwan (2), Nathan Lambert (2), Philip Kiely (1), Jared Palmer (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 41 mentions in 12 episodes 3 per episode
- Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- [State of Context Engineering] Agentic RAG, Context Rot, MCP, Subagents — Nina Lopatina, Contextual
- DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- ⚡️OpenCode: Claude Code but Open Source, with Any Model, and frontier TUI - with Dax Reed (@thdxr)
- The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- ⚡️Launching AI Diplomacy: the hardest LLM Game Benchmark yet - Alex Duffy
- GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about OpenRouter, oldest first
Jan 1, 2025 bullish
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Conrad: OpenRouter open-source traffic required only around 10 H100 nodes
“The entirety of Open Router that was not Anthropic or Google like, or Gemini or OpenAI or something. It was like, 10 H 100 nodes or something like that. It's just, like, not that much. It's like, not that many GPUs, actually, to service that entire demand.”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
OpenAI stealth-tested GPT-4.1 models on OpenRouter before official release
“Yeah yeah, we really wanted to get as much developer feedback as possible on this model to make sure it worked well in the real world, and so we tested it kind of through Open Router and it was super cool to see people latch on to the names and get the theorie…”
Jul 16, 2025 positive
Oct 7, 2025 positive
OpenAI integrates with OpenRouter for multi-provider evals
“We have a really cool setup with Open Router, where we're working with them, and then you can bring your Open Router setup. And then with that, you can actually, you know, you write your evals using our data sets tool, or use our data set tool to create a bunc…”