AIGC Weekly (Y26W33): OpenRouter Hits Stripe at $7B, NVIDIA Absorbs Poolside for $1.2B

Two big-ticket moves this week: OpenRouter joining Stripe at a $7B valuation pushes the AI gateway market into a new stage, and NVIDIA absorbing Poolside for $1.2B is a whale-tier signal. On the model side, Ornith-1.5 advances open-source self-improvement, while Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 quantization and Qwen3-TTS speed gains are worth testing.