Alex Atallah
@xanderatallah
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CEO @OpenRouterAI, the largest LLM marketplace. Previously: co-founder & CTO @OpenSea.
New York City
Joined July 2009
Excited to announce a $40M raise for @OpenRouterAI (seed + A), led by a16z & Menlo!. LLM inference will be the biggest software market in the world. We've become the #1 control plane. Here's what's next:
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If you're building an AI-powered tool for small teams, tell us @OpenRouterAI about it!. We try out many, provide lots of valuable feedback, and evangelize the best ones to others.
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Open source is making a vicious comeback on Grok 4's launch week.
Moonshot AI has surpassed xAI in token market share, just a few days after launching Kimi K2. 🎁 We also just put up a free endpoint for Kimi - try it now! 👇
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One of the best agent definitions I’ve seen!.
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Cool piece in SemiAnalysis about DeepSeek's traction since the launch of R1. Uses data from @OpenRouterAI!
DeepSeek Debrief: >128 Days Later.Traffic and User Zombification.GPU Rich Western Neoclouds.Token Economics (Tokenomics) Sets the Competitive Landscape.
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Before starting OpenSea and OpenRouter, I forked OpenWrt (WiFi router firmware) for a hackathon.
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RT @dfinzer: off to the races. welcome @chrismaddern, @christine_hall, and the rest of the @rally_xyz team to OpenSea .
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RT @natemodi: Underrated alpha on AI model adoption and the scaling wars is @OpenRouterAI's live token-usage rankings. Not sure there's a….
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RT @OpenRouterAI: New Stealth model live: "Cypher Alpha" 🥷. 🧩 General-purpose model with built-in tool-calling support!. 🎁 Completely free:….
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Timely launch from @Cloudflare that will move the web in this direction!
One idea for a fix for this: content authors could join subscription collectives (kind of like movies getting rolled up into a Netflix sub). AI models would be able to show signature proof that they paid for the sub, whenever a user asks for it. Is anyone doing this?.
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What does “Report Junk” in iMessage actually do? Does it really work? Where are all the junk messages going?
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American open-source AI is in dire need of a wake-up call.
American open-source models have almost fallen off the charts for our weekly model rankings 👀. Meta's Llama 3.3 70B is #20
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RT @cryptopunk7213: If there was ever an sign that LLM tokens are "the new oil" it's this. 10X GMV in 7 months. people want to use MANY mod….
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RT @tbpn: IN NEWS: @OpenRouterAI raises a $40M round led by @a16z and @MenloVentures. We spoke to @xanderatallah about the complexities of….
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