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OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark

OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark testing.

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum ...
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This new 'Fusion' AI beats Claude Fable 5 — here's how to use it (OpenRouter Fusion tutorial)

A tutorial exploring OpenRouter Fusion, a new AI model-fusion system that combines responses from multiple models to create ...

What is OpenRouter Fusion and how does it beat frontier AI models

It seems that AI companies' tendency to design ever-larger, more intelligent models has just been challenged by reality. OpenRouter has introduced Fusion, an API that sends your query to several ...
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OpenRouter launches Fusion blending language models, scores 69% on DRACO

OpenRouter's new Fusion API combines multiple AI models for superior accuracy and reasoning, offering premium performance at nearly half the cost of top-tier setups.
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OpenRouter nabs $40M in funding for its AI inference API

OpenRouter Inc., a startup working to ease the development of artificial intelligence applications, today announced that it has secured $40 million in funding. The company raised the capital over two ...
TechCrunch

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

Popular AI gateway maker OpenRouter, founded in 2023, has raised a hefty $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Google parent company Alphabet. While the startup didn’t ...