Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter, the multi-model API gateway, for $7B+
Near closing, it slots your neutral router under a payments giant — while self-hosters grab free speedups from DFlash 2, smaller Unsloth quants and fx.
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Same product, new parent — for now
Stripe is buying OpenRouter for a reported $7B+, but the team says your integration doesn't change: same API, same name, same neutral routing, closing in the coming weeks. Watch whether provider-neutrality and pricing hold under a payments owner.
DFlash 2: 3-4x faster local inference, free
Inco AI open-sourced speculative-decoding drafters it clocks at 2.7-3.4x throughput on Qwen3.8-27B and 3.1-4.6x on Meta's Muse Glimmer, for ~1% added latency. They drop into vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp and Ollama — a serving win with no accuracy tax.
Unsloth Dynamic 3.0: a 27B coder on one GPU
New GGUF quants add ~+8% top-1 accuracy at the same size; the UD-IQ1_S build of Qwen3.8-27B is just 6.2GB (89% smaller) at ~72% accuracy. A capable coding model that fits a single consumer card, runnable in llama.cpp or Unsloth Desktop.
fx: a 6MB open coding agent
An experimental (v0.0.5), Apache-2.0 coding-agent CLI in Zig — ~6MB binary, ~10 microsecond cold start, model- and provider-agnostic, with WASM support for embedding in larger systems. A lean harness if you're rolling your own agent loop.