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Router by Ramp
- solarkraft 1mo agoIncredible timing.
- pickledish 1mo agorouter.com! Cool domain though that must have been expensive :P
- embedding-shape 1mo ago> that must have been expensive Indeed, probably not cheap. Ironically, they see themselves as the ones that should help others "stop overpaying for things" and "help companies make better spending decisions": > Wait, Ramp bought router.com? We did. It was either this or spend the next year spelling out a longer URL on podcasts. More importantly, we build tools that help companies make better spending decisions and stop overpaying for things.
- ajd555 1mo agoIndeed. Also, ramp.com is shorter than router.com, so I don't really understand the "spelling out a longer URL on podcasts". I guess router.com is just clearer for customers?
- Jfrydman 1mo agoIt's certainly cheaper than buying OpenRouter for ~7B
- chiefofstuffs 1mo agoMoney can be exchanged for goods and services. Optimizing your saas/vendor/flights/hotel spend frees up money for domains!
- zelias 1mo agoIt can't be a coincidence that this dropped today, the same day news dropped about the Stripe acquisition of OpenRouter
- skeledrew 1mo agoSame day? The acquisition has been public knowledge for at least a week.
- copperx 1mo agoRouting requests to the ideal model? that's some big talk right there.
- zackfield 1mo agocheck out some of our work in this area https://engineering.ramp.com/post/thompson-sampling-model-routing https://engineering.ramp.com/post/thompson-sampling-model-ro... https://x.com/RampLabs/status/2087163448513765449 https://x.com/RampLabs/status/2087163448513765449
- embedding-shape 1mo agoThe 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.
- dewey 1mo agoI wouldn't read too much into it, that was probably a big rush job once the Stripe / openrouter news broke.
- embedding-shape 1mo ago> that was probably a big rush job once the Stripe / openrouter news broke Yeah, this was my hunch too, which honestly doesn't bode great for the future, but I'm always up to being pleasantly surprised.
- andai 1mo agoIs there an expectation that OR customers will jump ship due to something about Stripe, or about acquisitions in general?
- zackfield 1mo agolet us know which "mainstream" models you feel like we are missing support for! https://docs.router.com/supported-models https://docs.router.com/supported-models
- minraws 1mo agoGLM 5.3 (maybe because not open weights) Otherwise I think they just meant chinese models not mainstream models. Like Hy3, Mimo, etc. Also gemini models but not sure if they are mainstream anymore.
- Jfrydman 1mo agoI believe you are the first to request these Save for GLM 5.3 - coming soon once it percolates through our providers.
- darknoon 1mo agothey really buried the lede on which models are supported, then the link is broken as of now to the list (https://app.router.com/supported-models https://app.router.com/supported-models)
- zackfield 1mo agothanks for the heads up! fixed!
- upcoming-sesame 1mo ago"Router is not available in your region yet" Hmmm
- gonzalohm 1mo agoI 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
- zackfield 1mo agowe (Ramp) didn't buy anything, we built a model router in house!
- latchkey 1mo ago"create a cloudflare worker that proxies requests to any number of neoclouds. make no mistakes."
- ashdksnndck 1mo agoRamp showed up late into a market and have had more success than almost every company who tried before them. They seem to have some execution skill.
- dgellow 1mo agoIt’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 company
- b1gTekken 1mo agoSame happened at the start of the cloud era; everyone created a YT competitor, Twitter clones, MySpace clones, a cloud platform to host on (though it was just a wrapper around AWS like wrappers we see around OpenAI [looking at you Heroku]) Big tech emails leaked during a trial over a decade ago; C-level types agreed they need not truly compete and see each other as one big company. Screen based filter bubble living has kept the digital generation ignorant; it's all built on the same physical principles. No point pretending, at their level, they're doing anything truly different Mirror neurons are a helluva drug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron Society evolves slowly as generational churn is not fast
- ChrisArchitect 1mo agoThat's some domain; Blog post: https://ramp.com/blog/router-launch https://ramp.com/blog/router-launch
- aizk 1mo agoI just want to know how much the domain cost.
- fragmede 1mo agoand who owned it. Cisco, from the first Internet boom could have wanted that.
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- latchkey 1mo agoLess than $7B.
- Jfrydman 1mo agocan confirm, was less than $7B
- zackfield 1mo agostory here https://domaininvesting.com/ramp-acquired-router-com/ https://domaininvesting.com/ramp-acquired-router-com/
- scientifik 1mo agoBut no price.
- reticulates 1mo agoThe 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.
- eamag 1mo agoUS only, right?
- zackfield 1mo agofor now, yes
- skeledrew 1mo agoLooking forward to their inclusion on models.dev.
- throw03172019 1mo agoWhy do these Router companies never have BAAs? They can easily get them with the vendors, why not sign with the customer?
- latchkey 1mo agobecause they would be meaningless words on trust me bro paper.
- dvaplima 1mo agoThats basically a direct response of OpenRouter by Stripe? ahaha
- an0malous 1mo agoI just bought rowtr.ai, it should be ready by the time this one is acquired
- techpression 1mo ago"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.
- AnhTho_FR 1mo agoDo you see Router eventually taking customer entitlements or credit balances into account, or is the plan to keep it focused on model selection?
- kettlez 1mo agoWhy is a bank selling llm inference?
- scientifik 1mo agoTo juice their own valuation as an "AI Company"
- kulor 1mo agoPaypal, where's your AI model abstraction layer?
- xacky 1mo agoOnce again a common word for an established technology, (network routers), has been hijacked by a techbro company. How's your NFT collection going.
- therealalexz 1mo agoHow do they compete with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099143 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099143 ? Also, not available in my region (Sweden).