"Stripe has signed a deal to acquire OpenRouter. Together, they become the trusted, scaled, and performant network where the world’s AI companies exchange intelligence. This is a good thing for everybody, and it comes not a moment too soon. Model companies (both closed and open source) are in a generational Red Queen’s race of getting smarter and faster. Meanwhile, application companies are experiencing a Cambrian explosion of possibility, if only the infrastructure can keep up. OpenRouter and…