OpenRouter 被 Stripe 逾 70 亿美元收购，次日现零加价竞品
Alex Atallah might be the luckiest founder of all time.
Alex Atallah might be the luckiest founder of all time.
亚历克斯·阿塔拉可能是史上最幸运的创始人。
He co-founded OpenSea in 2017 and helped build the infrastructure behind the NFT boom. The company reached a $13.3 billion valuation. Atallah left his day-to-day role in July 2022, just as the market began to cool.
他于2017年共同创立了OpenSea，并帮助构建了NFT繁荣背后的基础设施。该公司估值达到133亿美元。阿塔拉于2022年7月卸任日常职务，恰逢市场开始降温。
Then he co-founded OpenRouter as generative AI took off. One API for hundreds of models, charging roughly 5% on the AI spend routed through it.
随后，随着生成式AI的兴起，他共同创立了OpenRouter。一个API接入数百个模型，对其路由的AI支出收取约5%的费用。
Built around that fee, OpenRouter raised more than $150 million in venture funding, including a $113 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation in May.
围绕这一费用模式，OpenRouter筹集了超过1.5亿美元的风险投资，包括5月份以13亿美元估值完成的1.13亿美元B轮融资。
Atallah described it as “an AI equivalent of Stripe.”
阿塔拉将其描述为“AI界的Stripe”。
Now Stripe has reportedly agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.
如今，据报道Stripe已同意以超过70亿美元收购OpenRouter。
And one day later, Straitly launches the same service with one key difference: 0% markup. The fee model at the heart of OpenRouter was priced to zero by a new competitor one day after the deal was reported.
而就在一天后，Straitly推出了相同的服务，关键区别在于：0%加价。在交易被报道的第二天，OpenRouter核心的收费模式就被新竞争对手定价为零。
Atallah sold the toll booth just as someone made the toll free.
阿塔拉在收费站被免费化之际卖掉了收费站。
Twice now, he has left the party at almost exactly the right moment.
这已是第二次，他几乎在恰好的时机离开了派对。
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