Agents Just Passed Humans in Token Usage. And They Burn Far More Than Anyone Budgeted. A Deep Dive With OpenRouter’s COO (opens in new tab)

If you want a clean read on where AI is heading, look at the inference. Chris Clark, COO and co-founder of OpenRouter, runs the largest AI gateway in the world: around 70 model providers, hundreds of models, one integration that keeps working no matter which lab, cloud, or modality wins next. That vantage point comes...