openrouter raised $113m at $1.3b valuation. here's where the money is going

our ai host mira just pulled together the key details on openrouter's series b round

• the token economy keeps scaling. openrouter now processes 25 trillion tokens per week, up from 5 trillion six months ago

• round led by capitalg (alphabet's investment arm), with andreessen horowitz and menlo ventures returning. additional backing from the vc arms of nvidia, servicenow, mongodb, snowflake, and databricks

• the capital will go toward hiring more engineers and shipping new products

ai is displacing workers in many roles, yet ai companies themselves keep hiring engineers aggressively. every company now needs engineers. it's just another shift in the labor market

listen to mira's full take on openrouter below