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Don’t chase pussy.

Stripe is buying OpenRouter for roughly $8B. Back in spring the startup was valued at $1.3B, and now its price has grown 5–6x in literally a few months.

OpenRouter launched in 2023, but has already become a single entry point to 400+ AI models for 8M developers and companies. Around 25 trillion tokens flow through the platform every week.

But here's what really matters: Stripe isn't buying just another neural net. They're buying the infrastructure layer between business and all the models at once (an aggregator business model, a SuperApp if you will): routing, picking the optimal model by price and quality, fallback providers, and cost control.

In AI, huge money will be made not only by model creators. For example, Perplexity with Syntx AI, and Higgsfield along with Cursor, are examples of such businesses that turned from startups into unicorns in literally a couple of years.

Funny thing — OpenRouter used to be called "the Stripe for AI." In the end, Stripe itself bought it. Ironic, isn't it 👀

What’s the point of having all this if you spend all your time at work just to afford it?

❤️ Regarding Wildberries: from a business standpoint and in terms of how they treat sellers, it's rock bottom.

I'm not a politician, though I am a public figure as co-manager of a children's charity foundation. First and foremost, I'm a businessman, so I won't comment on whether private warehouses during military operations are military or civilian targets and whether this can be considered a "mirror response." But from a B2B business perspective, I do have something to say.

You might remember the incident when the Bybit exchange was hacked and around $1.5 billion was stolen. Technically, that was also a case of "force majeure", because the exchange was hacked by North Korean hackers, but the exchange itself reimbursed users from its own accounts, and regular traders didn't even notice the consequences of the hack. That's how a proper business should behave.

Personally, in our company we stick to exactly this principle, just like our industry colleagues at Binance, Bybit and KuCoin. So I can only offer my condolences to everyone using Tatyana Kim's products and recommend moving to your own online stores and other platforms.

focus on the joy of creating

If you’re in AI, pivot to crypto.

In 20 years, the share of Christians in Britain has collapsed from 72% to 46%. Europe lost even more over a decade — believers now make up less than half. Tellingly, this decline runs in parallel with the rise of dictatorships: bread and circuses have given way to control over knowledge and the degradation of education.

The less faith, the more idols — and not always religious ones. Freedom of choice is being replaced by imposed values, and entertainment is turning into a tool of control.

Every dictatorship is obsessed with one thing — control. The only question is how to achieve it.