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The AI startup whose valuation exploded in a matter of months

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The AI startup whose valuation exploded in a matter of months

Two months before Stripe agreed to pay more than $7 billion for OpenRouter, it made a quieter, nearly identical move. In December 2025, Stripe acquired Metronome, a startup that helps companies bill customers for AI usage measured in tokens and GPU seconds. Almost nobody connected the two deals ...

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