
GroqCloud, Mistral, and 3 others now offer free LLM APIs with generous daily limits
Five providers now give free access to large language models like NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra and Gemini 3.7 Flash for development and testing.
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Five providers now give free access to large language models like NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra and Gemini 3.7 Flash for development and testing.

Stripe acquires OpenRouter for over $7B, boosting its AI sector presence and offering developers access to 400+ models.

Menlo Ventures raises $3B for AI startups, backing Anthropic, Suno, and infrastructure companies like OpenRouter and Fireworks.

US and Chinese companies dominate the top 50 AI models, with China's share tripling in 15 months, per OpenRouter data.