Full Name

Alex Atallah

Job Title

Co-founder & CEO

Company

OpenRouter

Speaker Bio

Alex Atallah is the co-founder and CEO of OpenRouter, the first and largest gateway for large language models like GPT-4, Claude, Llama, DeepSeek, and more. With over 4 million developers and 250K apps on the platform, OpenRouter now provides access to the most models, the best performance and uptime, and the most insights about how to use them, emphasizing transparency, choice, and performance at scale. Before diving into the AI space, Alex co-founded OpenSea, the first and largest NFT marketplace, and helped build the early foundations of Web3. Originally trained in computer science at Stanford, Alex has spent his career working on tools that make the internet more open, creative, and accessible. These days, he's focused on helping people get the most out of AI, without the complexity or closed ecosystems. Alex has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 and has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal.