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OpenRouter News: Latest Releases & Events

In November, Interconnects drew on OpenRouter's API-reported open model share, alongside provider data, to estimate a near-exponentially growing open model inference market. In October, OpenRouter hosted Recursive Superintelligence's open coding model Flint from its debut. In May 2026, it raised $113 million in a Series B led by CapitalG, valued at $1.3 billion, while processing 25 trillion tokens per week.

All 3 OpenRouter entries of the AI News timeline, newest first.

2026

November 2026

2026-11-04

  • Interconnects sizes the open model economy
    Nathan Lambert's Interconnects published its first open model economy research note, estimating the open model inference market using token-volume disclosures from Baseten, Fireworks, and Together AI plus OpenRouter's API-reported open model share, finding near-exponential growth in the category. Fireworks disclosed at its first company conference that it now serves more than 40 trillion tokens per day for customers' customized models alone, and the note benchmarks open platforms against Google's earnings-report token volumes. (interconnects.ai)
    Fireworks Baseten Together AI

October 2026

2026-10-21

  • Recursive releases Flint 40B open coding MoE
    Recursive Superintelligence open-sourced Flint, its first model: an Apache 2.0-licensed mixture-of-experts coding LLM with 39.8B total parameters (~2.5B active per token) and a 262K context window, scoring 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 89.7% on SWE-bench Pro v2, and 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified. The model, built by Recursive's automated 'Eureka Machine' research system, debuted with ecosystem support including OpenRouter hosting and day-0 vLLM support achieving 500 TPS on a single GB200 via NVFP4 kernels, and NVIDIA featured Flint as a local coding model optimized for RTX Spark and DGX Spark hardware. (huggingface.co)
    Recursive Nvidia

May 2026

2026-05-28

  • OpenRouter Raises $113M, Valued at $1.3B
    OpenRouter, an AI model aggregation platform that provides a unified API to access and route across hundreds of AI models, raised $113 million in a Series B round led by CapitalG (Alphabet), with participation from NVentures (Nvidia), ServiceNow Ventures, and others, reaching a $1.3 billion valuation—more than double its previous $547 million valuation. The company now processes 25 trillion tokens per week and serves over 8 million users, underscoring enterprise demand for multi-model routing as agentic AI deployment scales. (aibusiness.com)
    Google Nvidia ServiceNow