OpenRouter raised $113M at $1.3B (CapitalG) and processes 25T tokens/week across 400+ models — a 5× increase in six months — cementing its role as a leading LLM routing layer.
Anthropic is approaching its first profitable quarter, driven by coding agents reaching daily-driver status among professional developers — a landmark financial milestone for the company.
Cognition raised $1B at $26B valuation; run-rate revenue hit $492M and Devin now writes 89% of the company's own code — a self-eating proof-of-concept.
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta collectively spend 12× the Manhattan Project per year on AI with no moat, no major profits, and an inevitable price war, per Marcus and Mark Cuban.
ChatGPT's traffic share dropped from 77% to 57% as Gemini surged to 25% via Google distribution and Claude nearly tripled to 6% on product pull alone.
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