howdy, it’s Barsee again.

happy monday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

• Stripe is reportedly buying OpenRouter

• Anthropic may be sitting on a model it’s not willing to release

• A guy may have solved a 22-year-old math problem with ChatGPT

• Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

VIKTOR

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Five clients work out to roughly $44K to $79K in year one. Example numbers; results vary.

One founding specialist reported six figures in revenue in his first 30 days.

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

1/ Stripe is reportedly buying OpenRouter for more than $7 billion: Stripe has reportedly agreed to acquire the AI infrastructure startup for more than $7 billion, just months after OpenRouter was valued at around $1.3 billion. The platform gives developers access to 400+ AI models and 8 million developers, making it easy to switch providers when one is cheaper or more reliable. For Stripe, the deal could be a huge bet on owning the infrastructure layer behind the AI boom.

2/ Anthropic may be sitting on a model it’s not willing to release: The company says it has no plans to launch “Model 2,” an internal system that reportedly outperforms its current top models at coding, agentic work, and data generation. Anthropic has also raised its estimated risk of misalignment in high-stakes situations from “very low” to “low” and says its models are getting better at automated R&D. The interesting part isn’t just how powerful the model is, but that Anthropic apparently thinks releasing it could be a bad idea.

3/ A neurosurgery resident may have solved a 22-year-old math problem with ChatGPT: Beijing neurosurgery resident Shanmu Jin says GPT-5.6 Sol produced a proof of Crouzeix’s Conjecture during a 16-hour autonomous session in ChatGPT Work. Jin isn’t a professional mathematician and taught himself advanced math after studying geology and medicine, while several experts have independently checked the proof. Formal peer review is still pending, but if the proof holds up, the bigger story may be that AI is making advanced mathematical discovery accessible to people who never trained as mathematicians.

TRENDING TOOLS

• Memoket > Your AI misses off-screen conversations. Memoket Gem captures them as context your agents can use. Pre-order includes a free year of the App ^_(sponsored)

• Agent-28 > The first agentic video editor built from the ground up for AI

• Computer History > Turns your Mac activity into searchable memory for ChatGPT and Codex

• Excire Foto > Searches your local photo and video library by people, objects, moods, locations, and visible text, then helps you find the best shots

• Zetik > Watches anything you name, from a company or person to a rumor, across the entire internet and only pings you when something actually happens.

WHAT I'M CONSUMING

• The Adolescence of Technology

THE VALLEY GEMS

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