Chaphasilor [he/him]

This is madness but it is GLORIOUS madness!

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Cake day: January 31st, 2026

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  • OpenRouter is like a market place for AI model providers. So other companies can offer access to AI models through their servers, and OpenRouter will expose them to you via a unified interface. When you send a request to a certain AI model, OpenRouter forwards that request to the currently cheapest provider that’s available.

    So it helps you get easy access to thousands of models for a competitive price, without having to pay tens of different providers and figuring out which is cheapest and such. It’s a convenience thing, mostly.


  • Actually, the article points out that this is a bubble just like any very disruptive technology in the last 200 years (nothing new). But the focus is on the analysis that a lot of private and public investment is now unknowingly based on the valuations of these AI companies, so if their valuations go down, it could have devastating effects of anything from private investments to public pension.

    They are not discovering that this is a bubble, just that it popping is likely to affect us more than most people would think.