Compute Arbitrage: Why API Routing Is the Next Big Infrastructure Play
Eastern Dev
Last week, OpenRouter raised at a $1.3B valuation. They route API requests between AI models and charge 5% commission. 8 humans run the whole thing. I've been building an alternative called NeuralBridge that does the same thing — with zero human operators and zero commission. Here's why I think compute arbitrage is the next big infrastructure category: The Analogy: Oil → Compute The Gulf states built their wealth on resource arbitrage: extract oil here, sell it there. The margin comes from geogr