What is OpenRouter Fusion and how does it beat frontier AI models?

It seems that AI companies' tendency to design ever-larger, more intelligent models has just been challenged by reality.
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OpenRouter nabs $40M in funding for its AI inference API

OpenRouter Inc., a startup working to ease the development of artificial intelligence applications, today announced that it has secured $40 million in funding. The company raised the capital over two ...
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Testing new LLMs shouldn't require five subscriptions, and OpenRouter proves it

OpenRouter makes it easier to test new LLMs without juggling subscriptions, accounts, and recurring charges.
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OpenRouter raises $40 million to scale up multi-model inference for enterprise

NEW YORK, June 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OpenRouter, the unified interface for large-language-model (LLM) inference, today announced that it has closed a combined Seed and Series A financing of $40 ...
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Chinese AI Models Lead OpenRouter Traffic: Coding Gains Come With China Data Risk

Three days after OpenRouter raised a $113 million Series B and disclosed that weekly traffic on its platform had reached 25 trillion tokens — five times higher than six months earlier — the most ...