Alex Atallah

Alex Atallah is co-founder and CEO of OpenRouter, a marketplace that routes LLM traffic across hundreds of models, and was previously co-founder and CTO of OpenSea. In January 2026 he co-authored an empirical study of over 100 trillion tokens of real-world OpenRouter usage, giving him ground-truth data on how developers actually consume AI at scale. His talks and interviews draw on that operational vantage to discuss multi-model inference economics, the open-vs-closed model split (he pegs open source at roughly 20-30% of OpenRouter's inference tokens), and the shift toward agentic workflows.