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OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
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From the earliest days of open-weight models to becoming the neutral routing layer for more than 10 million developers, OpenRouter is one of the clearest bets that the future of AI will be multi-model. In this episode, OpenRouter co-founder & CEO Alex Atallah, with AMP’s Anjney Midha returning with swyx to unpack how OpenRouter emerged from the first wave of Llama, Alpaca, Mistral, and Midjourney, why model diversity mattered before it was consensus, and how a company dismissed as “just a wrapper” became critical infrastructure for the AI ecosystem. We go deep on the product and distribution lessons behind...
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Okay, we are here in Anjis House. It was just where all great startups in San Francisco start. Howdy. And congrats on cursor, Mr. All.
God knows what else, you've got so much stuff going on. There's a lot going on. Well, Open Router has probably been the most, I would say, one I'm excited about. Yeah, yeah.
And we have Alex first time on the pod, but you've been in the AIE a few times. I appreciate every time you've shown up for the community. Congrats. I just like, what a journey. When I was looking back at your past posts,
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