OpenRouter has raised $40 million in funding, with Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures as lead investors.

BlockBeats News, June 27th, according to The Block, OpenRouter, an artificial intelligence infrastructure startup co-founded by former OpenSea co-founder Alex Atallah, has completed a $40 million seed and Series A funding round to accelerate the development of its large-scale language model aggregation platform.

This funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital and several well-known industry angel investors. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company is currently valued at $5 billion.

OpenRouter is positioned as an aggregation and routing platform for Large Language Models (LLMs). It brings together hundreds of models from various providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and others, and can automatically route user commands to the most suitable model based on cost, speed, accuracy, and privacy requirements.