The AI Infrastructure Land Grab: Stripe Takes Aim at Developers' Bottom Line Stripe's $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter signals a significant shift in the fintech landscape.
On its surface, this deal appears to be just another massive tech acquisition, but digging deeper reveals something more profound at play.
By sitting between businesses and banks, Stripe has already carved out a lucrative niche in payments infrastructure. Now, it's applying that same playbook to the rapidly growing world of AI usage.