The New Stack reports Stripe’s OpenRouter acquisition and Ramp’s router.com launch
Defaulting to the most powerful AI model is becoming an expensive habit, The New Stack says. It describes model triage—choosing which model to use—as an emerging core engineering skill.
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The New Stack reports that Stripe acquired OpenRouter and Ramp launched router.com, framing both moves around the growing importance of model triage. It says defaulting to the most powerful model is becoming costly and argues that the runtime—the software environment where models run—is becoming AI’s new point of control, rather than the model itself.
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