A lot of people are wondering why Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter when both companies look completely different. Well, Stripe is making the right use of their money. Stripe realized that building an LLM would cost a hell of a lot of money. So why not avoid the cost of building an LLM and focus more on owning the infrastructure layer around AI applications? I don't see a single application on the internet in the next 5 years that won't be making an API call to an LLM provider. Now think about…