Ari Jacoby's Concentrate AI enters the AI routing fight as token bills bite
Concentrate emerged from stealth with more than $5 million, while OpenRouter's recent $113 million round shows how fast the gateway layer is heating up.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Business Insider
Why it matters
AI routing is becoming the cost-control layer for companies that adopted multiple models before they built model governance. The category's value depends on whether developers treat routing as independent infrastructure or let cloud platforms absorb it.
Ari Jacoby's Concentrate AI emerged from stealth Wednesday with more than $5 million in funding, Business Insider reported, entering a market that OpenRouter has already turned into one of the clearest infrastructure bets of the multi-model AI cycle.…
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