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- Do you see Router eventually taking customer entitlements or credit balances into account, or is the plan to keep it focused on model selection?by AnhTho_FR
- I just bought rowtr.ai, it should be ready by the time this one is acquiredby an0malous
- How do they compete with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099143 ? Also, not available in my region (Sweden).by therealalexz
- Why do these Router companies never have BAAs? They can easily get them with the vendors, why not sign with the customer?
- because they would be meaningless words on trust me bro paper.by latchkey
- It can't be a coincidence that this dropped today, the same day news dropped about the Stripe acquisition of OpenRouterby zelias
- Same day? The acquisition has been public knowledge for at least a week.by skeledrew
- Routing requests to the ideal model? that's some big talk right there.by copperx
- check out some of our work in this area
https://engineering.ramp.com/post/thompson-sampling-model-ro...
by zackfield - Why is a bank selling llm inference?by kettlez
- To juice their own valuation as an "AI Company"by scientifik
- That's some domain;
Blog post: https://ramp.com/blog/router-launch
- "Router itself stores model inputs, outputs, and metadata and uses this data to improve the service, but users may turn this off in settings."
Why is it that every AI-product think dark UX with default data harvesting of proprietary data is a great idea? I mean it's rhetorical, stealing for training is the norm, but it's still just as disappointing every time I see it.
by techpression - I guess this is the world we live in now. All companies no matter which sector they belong to must buy AI crap.
A few years ago, companies buying random companies from a completely different sector was frowned upon by stakeholders
by gonzalohm - we (Ramp) didn't buy anything, we built a model router in house!by zackfield
- It’s also so strange how they all play the exact same game. Everybody creates pretty much the same products. Every software company will have a chatbot, an agentic harness, a model router, and whatever will be the next trend. It’s not an ecosystem where we see lots of different ideas with some crazy, some failing, some succeeding, it really feels like it’s a single same bet and all SF companies are sort of acting like one homogeneous meta companyby dgellow
- I just want to know how much the domain cost.by aizk
- and who owned it. Cisco, from the first Internet boom could have wanted that.by fragmede
- by zackfield
- Less than $7B.by latchkey
- The domain was previously owned by Innovation HQ (innovationhq.com) who own tens of thousands of domains, some of the best in the world (they sold robot.com not long ago, owns/runs whatismyip.com). Innovation were asking ~$5 million for it earlier this year. Given the huge money flowing into AI router projects, I expect Ramp paid very close to asking, or perhaps a little more. So, $5 million +/- $1 million is my guess. I assume Ramp will announce the price in a few weeks to generate some more press for the project.by reticulates
- The fact that they put "every model" repeatedly, then don't actually support even close to "most mainstream models", makes me highly doubtful their service will be more honest and forthcoming once I'm signed up.
- let us know which "mainstream" models you feel like we are missing support for! https://docs.router.com/supported-modelsby zackfield
- I wouldn't read too much into it, that was probably a big rush job once the Stripe / openrouter news broke.by dewey