While the company didn’t disclose the deal price, sources told the New York Times that it paid $7. Stripe reportedly had to outbid others interested in the fast-growing startup,including Databricks. But the question is: what does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? “It’s a fuzzy and perhaps already overworked term but we decided that January 1 marked the beginning of the singularity and we’ve been operating on that basis,” they wrote in the letter,published by Eric Newcomer, and verified by TechCrunch. The singularity is supposed to mean the point at which humans and the tech we’ve created merge to become a new species.