24/08/2026
The Single-Model Enterprise Is Dead. Buy Tickets, Not the Railway.
Stripe pays $7B+ for a switchboard, NVIDIA pays $6B for a model factory it won't sell you, and your moat just moved to the context layer....
Stripe's OpenRouter acquisition and NVIDIA's Poolside deal price the routing layer. Why CEOs should rent models, own context, and stop planning data centres.