News Summary

• Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures are poised to turn investments made less than two years ago into payouts worth nearly $2 billion combined if Stripe acquires the AI model marketplace.
• OpenRouter helps developers direct their tasks to different AI models.
• The startup also monitors for overspend and quickly resolves outages — and they're seeing a gigantic surge in demand.
• A16z, whose investment was led by former general partner Anjney Midha, owns more than 17% of the company.
• This would net the investment firm a payday of close to $1.5 billion, if acquired at $8 billion.