good pivot into ai by crypto bro https://x.com/xanderatallah/status/1937957937692938292?s=46

solid job with open router so far. they might be a better shot at user owned data with model gateway than most crypto x ai projects larping same

Excited to announce a $40M raise for @OpenRouterAI  (seed + A), led by a16z &amp; Menlo!

LLM inference will be the biggest software market in the world. We've become the #1 control plane. Here's what's next: https://t.co/wOqDJfGbPj

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That makes a lot of sense now. Yeah they’ve made the process super easy to apply

that too and open router is all rage b/c there's thesis around ai gateways aka vercel gateway recently made public. it's like owning the toll booth on an highway kinda deal it seems (for now). honestly also good execution

Yup, they make it so easy to interchange between models. That plug by Karpathy in his talk probably helped their cause too