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OpenRouter nabs $40M in funding for its AI inference API

OpenRouter Inc., a startup working to ease the development of artificial intelligence applications, today announced that it has secured $40 million in funding. The company raised the capital over two ...
The Information

Startup OpenRouter Fields Multibillion-Dollar Takeover Interest

OpenRouter, which helps app developers access hundreds of AI models, has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company ...

What is OpenRouter Fusion and how does it beat frontier AI models?

It seems that AI companies' tendency to design ever-larger, more intelligent models has just been challenged by reality. OpenRouter has introduced Fusion, an API that sends your query to several ...
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LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along

Chinese tech company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on June 30, confirming the open-license, 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model is the same system that sp ...
TechCrunch

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

Popular AI gateway maker OpenRouter, founded in 2023, has raised a hefty $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Google parent company Alphabet. While the startup didn’t ...
Wall Street Journal

OpenRouter, a Marketplace for AI Models, Raises $40 Million

Startup OpenRouter has raised $40 million in venture funding to help software developers overwhelmed by the growing number of artificial-intelligence models. “There’s been a Cambrian explosion of ...

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum legal flexibility for enterprise integration.