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by kennywinker 5 days ago
What percentage of the potential market does openrouter have? Like even if they have 100% of today’s customers, they probably have like 3% of 5-years-from-now’s customers.
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BobbyTables2 5 days ago
Seems like it’s also assuming in 5 years from now people will still want an AI router.

How many people even use more than one search engine?

A “search engine router” wouldn’t be very successful…

If AI tokens become unlimited like cell phone minutes, why bother routing?

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bulbar 4 days ago
> If AI tokens become unlimited

Why would they? OpenAI and Anthropic aren't even profitable yet.

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spwa4 2 days ago
Seems incredibly likely that in 5 years every small linux shop has an AI router endpoint like openrouter, but router.smalllinuxshop.net or something with open models. And if there aren't open models anymore ... then openrouter won't exist anymore either.

Hell, I'd be disappointed if half of them don't have one today.

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kennywinker 5 days ago
Just another reason this would be a mind-numbingly dumb acquisition.
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ikidd 4 days ago
Nothing about this bubble makes sense. Why should this?
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