[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B

AINews: TheInformation had the scoop last month, but OpenRouter's acquisition by Stripe for $7B was seems all but closed this weekend, 90 days after their $1.3B Series B. Their last revenue number out there was $140m annualized, so this represents a 'standard' 50x multiple for a top tier AI company. What's incredible is the profitability: Although much smaller than Cursor, OpenRouter likely has better economics. Its costs to serve its model-routing product were recently about $40 million on an annualized basis, or 28.5% of its revenue, meaning it was generating $100 million in annualized gross profit. With a roughly 70% gross profit margin, OpenRouter was near the level of high-performing, publicly traded software firms in that regard.... Overall, OpenRouter is facilitating AI model usage at a rate of 250 trillion tokens per month, up from 50 trillion tokens per month in February.

AINews: OpenAI's power-and-compute strategy is getting very literal: Two related posts suggest OpenAI is moving beyond 'GPU supply' narratives into long-horizon control of the full infrastructure stack. @markchen90 described a 4+ GW NVIDIA capacity commitment; @kimmonismus added detail on an 8 GW Ohio campus, with SB Energy building and operating the site, NVIDIA backing the initial 4.25 GW, and a multi-year buildout through 2032. For infra engineers, the notable point is not just scale, but vertical coupling across power, data centers, chips, and long-dated access.

AINews: The strongest signal here was @cline's note that Qwen3.8-27B now scores at DeepSeek V4-Pro / GPT-5.6 Luna territory on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, described as the first time a local model has reached that capability tier. Ollama immediately positioned deployment paths for local users, and anecdotal reports like @rishdotblog's suggest the model is already practical for long-context local coding setups.