A go-between that settles trades between buyers and sellers; what a commodity gets when its market is large enough to need one and thin enough to fear trading without one. The book’s instance is OpenRouter, a service that passes requests to AI models, after Stripe agreed to buy it. Chapter 14.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 14 — The Convergence
One campus, Meta’s Hyperion, run through four possible futures to show how science, power, money and permission meet in the price of an accelerator-hour.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Clearing house.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/clearing-house (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-clearing-house-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Clearing house}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/clearing-house},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}