has agreed to acquire artificial-intelligence startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that would push the payments company deeper into the infrastructure powering the rapidly expanding AI economy. The transaction, reported by Bloomberg, comes only months after OpenRouter raised $113 million in a funding round that valued the company at about $1. A deal above $7 billion would therefore represent more than a fivefold increase in valuation in less than three months. The final purchase price could still change, according to people familiar with the discussions. OpenRouter, founded in 2023, operates a routing layer that gives developers a single interface through which they can access hundreds of AI models.