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Oct 6

Oct 6TueItems 1–4
  1. OpenRouter BlogAI score62

    ElevenLabs text-to-speech and speech-to-text models now available on OpenRouter

    ElevenLabs now offers nine Text to Speech models and two Speech to Text models through OpenRouter, callable with an OpenRouter API key and no separate ElevenLabs plan. All ElevenLabs models are 50% off OpenRouter's list price through October 19, 8am PT, and Eleven v4, v4 Turbo, and Scribe v2 are recommended as starting points for narration, voice agents, and transcription.

    AIWhy it matters: The source gives a concrete three-step build path and model selection guidance, showing how speech models plug into an existing text API for voice agents and transcription.

Oct 2

Oct 2Fri
  1. Prime Intellect BlogAI score67

    Prime Inference launches serverless and reserved serving for open frontier models

    Prime Inference is a serving platform for frontier open-source models, offering serverless endpoints and reserved capacity on Prime's GPU infrastructure across multiple datacenters. Its first public deployment, GLM-5.3, went live on OpenRouter on September 22, and the post reports a near-zero tool-call error rate and 100% uptime since launch. The post also describes GLM-5.3 serving on GB200 NVL72 with prefill/decode disaggregation and NVFP4 KV compression.

    AIWhy it matters: The post separates scheduler, KV-cache, and tool-call fixes, showing concretely which bottlenecks shape production serving of open frontier models.

Aug 18

Aug 18Tue
  1. OpenRouter BlogAI score72

    OpenRouter announces it is joining Stripe, keeping its product unchanged

    OpenRouter announced it is joining forces with Stripe, saying its product, name, mission, and roadmap will remain the same. The company says it processes more than 10 trillion tokens per day from over 400 AI models for a community of over 10 million developers and companies. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the coming weeks.

    AIWhy it matters: The announcement states that OpenRouter's product, roadmap, and mission stay unchanged after the Stripe deal, which clarifies what existing developers should expect.

Jun 11

Jun 11Thu
  1. OpenRouter BlogAI score74

    OpenRouter Fusion panels beat individual models on the DRACO deep research benchmark

    OpenRouter introduced Fusion, a tool that sends a prompt to a panel of models and has a judge model fuse their results into one answer. On 100 DRACO deep research tasks, a Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 panel scored 69.0%, above Fable 5 alone at 65.3%, and a budget panel of Gemini 3 Flash, Kimi K2.6, and DeepSeek V4 Pro reached 64.7% at about half the cost of Fable 5.

    AIWhy it matters: The source gives benchmark scores, panel compositions, and contamination controls, letting readers judge how much of the gain comes from model diversity versus self-synthesis.

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Since 2023
  1. CompanyRaises $40 million from a16z and Menlo Ventures
  2. ProductStealth model Quasar Alpha appears, later revealed as GPT-4.1
  1. ProductStealth model Quasar Alpha appears, later revealed as GPT-4.1
  2. CompanyRaises $40 million from a16z and Menlo Ventures