OpenRouter raises $113M while routing 100T tokens a month

A neutral routing layer reached massive token volume and venture scale while the market debates whether model labs will own the whole stack

OpenRouter just raised $113M at $1.3B routing 100T tokens a month between providers. Google Ventures led. Interesting signal in the labs-own-everything vs commoditize debate when a model lab’s own investor arm is funding the swappable layer

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