Ron Shepherd

Investor/Advisor in AI, SaaS & Games ex: @0xpolygon @unity @EA

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

Introducing the Fusion API, the smartest compound model in the market.

Fusion achieves Fable-level intelligence at half the price.

How it works 👇

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

Honored to be included in @Redpoint’s 2026 InfraRed 100!

https://t.co/sGeZRtn1vz

[Ron Shepherd @RonShepherd]

Grateful to @m_delamerced and @nytimes for the great write up on @OpenRouter, our recent funding and the shift to multi-model AI.

https://t.co/MyAuYMBjsl

[Deedy @deedydas]

OpenRouter is now serving 1.5 quadrillion tokens/yr!

That token run rate is:
— 15-30% of Google APIs
— 20-40% of OpenAI
— >50% of Microsoft Azure Foundry

That's 15x larger than when we invested a year ago.

Revenue has already doubled since this $1.3B round was done in Feb!

[Ron Shepherd @RonShepherd]

It's been so much fun building alongside this team, our customers, and our partners over the past year. Today we announced our $113M Series B led by @CapitalG

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

Today we’re announcing our $113M Series B led by @CapitalGVC.

Over the last 6 months, weekly volume on OpenRouter grew from 5T to 25T tokens as AI rapidly shifts from experimentation into production.

We’re excited for what comes next.

[Alex Atallah @alexatallah]

New American lab focused on coding. Trained completely in-house on 30T tokens

"by completing millions of tasks in tens of thousands of real world software projects.

We call this approach Reinforcement Learning from Code Execution Feedback."

Welcome @poolsideai to OpenRouter!

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

SOTA perf from GPT-5.5 for long-running tasks:

[Alex Atallah @alexatallah]

Easiest way to deploy openclaw and other agents on the cloud of your choice: https://t.co/WfeIdfOxa5

All agents work with all models right out of the box!

It’s in beta. Lets us know if you have feedback:

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Meet Hermes Agent, the open source agent that grows with you.

Hermes Agent remembers what it learns and gets more capable over time, with a multi-level memory system and persistent dedicated machine access.

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

.@MiniMax_AI M2.5 is now the most popular model on OpenRouter

[Deedy @deedydas]

OpenRouter weekly token consumption has exploded 12.7x in the last year to ~12.1 trillion tokens/week or 662T tokens/year run rate.

To give you a sense of this scale, Azure did 100T tok/quarter 6mos ago.

OpenRouter is responsible for about as much inference as ALL of Azure.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from January 6 allegedly yelling 'kill them!' at police officers. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned by President Trump

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

[Jaynit Makwana @JaynitMakwana]

🚨BREAKING: AI devs are panicking right now

OpenRouter just silently dropped the ultimate API of 2026.

It lets you switch between 300+ LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta – all through one unified endpoint, no code rewrites.

Here’s the breakdown: 🧵

[Matt Apperson @mattapperson]

I am curious, what are your biggest pain points when building custom agents? What are the biggest issues or frustrations with current libraries? I want to make 2026 the year that building agents is not just possible, but enjoyable!

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

From the @NVIDIA CES keynote 💚

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

Reminder: you can just chat with over a dozen SoTA image models right on OpenRouter

Compare outputs on one prompt!

[Ron Shepherd @RonShepherd]

@AnjneyMidha ❤️

[Alex Atallah @alexatallah]

#2, after Cursor, is OpenRouter ❤️

[Ron Shepherd @RonShepherd]

@openrouter is the 2nd fastest growing software vendor in 2025 according to @brexHQ based on their spending dataset!

[Brex @brexHQ]

The fastest-growing software vendors of 2025 just dropped 🎉

Our last Brex Benchmark of the year breaks down the purchasing patterns of our 35,000+ customers, showing which vendors are becoming essential for teams to operate and grow.

[Ron Shepherd @RonShepherd]

We just published the State of AI report with @a16z - 100T+ tokens analyzed across 3M+ users. Lots of great insights on closed v open model usage, new model adoption, Chinese models and use cases for open source models

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

We collaborated with @a16z to publish the **State of AI** - an empirical report on how LLMs have been used on OpenRouter.

After analyzing more than 100 trillion tokens across hundreds of models and 3+ million users (excluding 3rd party) from the last year, we have a lot of insights to share.