openrouter

Stripe is reportedly paying $7B+ for OpenRouter, Cursor shipped a GitHub rival into a six-hour GitHub outage and Anthropic made AI-reviews-AI the default in Claude Code, and this map shows who now owns each agent-ops layer amid a live containment crisis.

Three different products spent two years fighting over the phrase 'LLM router': aggregation won at a $1.3B valuation, gateways became table stakes, and the most-hyped category, semantic cost-routing, quietly froze on GitHub.