The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMP

Name: The $10 Trillion Token Economy — Alex Atallah, OpenRouter & Anjney Midha, AMP
Uploaded: 2026-09-26T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 4961 s
Channel: Latent Space
Description: OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah traces the routing layer from the open-weight era to 10 million developers, arguing orchestration is becoming payments-grade infrastructure. With AMP's Anjney Midha: data policy as trust moat, interchange-like margins, and what a $5–10 trillion token economy needs.

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Summary：OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah traces the routing layer from the open-weight era to 10 million developers, arguing orchestration is becoming payments-grade infrastructure. With AMP's Anjney Midha: data policy as trust moat, interchange-like margins, and what a $5–10 trillion token economy needs.

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Core points (3)

1OpenRouter grew from a dismissed wrapper into neutral rails for 10 million developers.
2Token flow compounds like payments volume, and it needs the same fraud and trust layers.
3Conservative data policy became the moat: no training on prompts, no default visibility.