OpenRouter 从种子轮到 Stripe：中立路由层与 token 经济安全
原标题：OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
AI 摘要
OpenRouter 联合创始人兼 CEO Alex Atallah 与 AMP 的 Anjney Midha 在 Latent Space 播客中回顾了 OpenRouter 从 Llama、Alpaca、Mistral 等早期开源模型浪潮中起步，成长为服务超 1000 万开发者的中立模型路由层的过程。节目讨论了模型实验室在分发上的困境、Mistral 价格战如何验证推理市场价值、OpenRouter 排行榜如何成为 AI 使用情况的实时地图，以及其每日处理超 10 万亿 token 的规模。最后，Anjney 解释了 Stripe 与 OpenRouter 的契合点，并指出 token 欺诈可能成为 AI 经济中的关键安全问题，未来自主智能体将发起新一轮欺诈攻击。
正文节选
From the earliest days of open-weight models to becoming the neutral routing layer for more than 10 million developers, OpenRouter is one of the clearest bets that the future of AI will be multi-model. In this episode, OpenRouter co-founder & CEO Alex Atallah, with AMP’s Anjney Midha returning with swyx to unpack how OpenRouter emerged from the first wave of Llama, Alpaca, Mistral, and Midjourney, why model diversity mattered before it was consensus, and how a company dismissed as “just a wrappe