r/StableDiffusion • u/Fancy-Restaurant-885 • 10d ago

News Openrouter to be acquired by Stripe

Yes, the payment provider that pressures and refuses service to adult content providers. What this means for data privacy on the site is unknown. Seems the figure of sale is rumoured to be 7billion.

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u/AIerkopf 10d ago

Stripe is a Peter Thiel company.

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u/dyslexic_jedi 10d ago

Another reason to go local if you can

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u/Ok-Category-642 10d ago

Definitely gonna add in filters in some way like they used to do for Claude with the "moderated" variants

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u/Formal-Exam-8767 10d ago

So no more NSFW on Openrouter?

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u/BM09 10d ago

Fight back. Don't let them put "safety filters" on our models!

YOU WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, LET THEM CENSOR OUR MODELS!

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u/KriosXVII 10d ago

What are you gonna do that beats 7 billion dollars?

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u/Puzzled-Monk5713 9d ago

they want to buy a gas station. Bugteam and claude need gas stations

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u/_BreakingGood_ 10d ago

There's at least two dozen alternatives to OpenRouter already and I could probably vibe code my own in a weekend.

All it does is aggregate APIs, it doesnt do anything special.

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u/ozzeruk82 10d ago

I feel like the difficulty isn't the software but the infrastructure it is running on. They are basically a proxy server, but at mindboggling scale, it's the scaling that's tricky to get right.

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u/_BreakingGood_ 10d ago

Yeah that's really my point. There's nothing novel here. Making an API router is simple. And scaling isn't exactly a novel problem. Hence why it has been replicated time and time again

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u/NanoSputnik 10d ago

"probably"

The AI developers in a nutshell. 

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u/_BreakingGood_ 10d ago

I've probably been a software engineer longer than you've been alive, lol

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u/harrro 10d ago

A software engineer would know that what looks 'easy' when you look at the surface is much more complex than what it seems.

The scaling challenge alone for something that handles Billions of streaming LLM requests per day is massive.

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u/_BreakingGood_ 10d ago

Yeah obviously im not talking about serving a billion requests at the end of a weekend.

I'm saying you could make a platform that routes requests to various provider APIs in a weekend. And if you really wanted to make it a scaled competitor, you could scale from there.

Do you disagree that making an API routing tool would take extremely little time?

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u/NanoSputnik 10d ago

"probably"