The OpenRouter Show - Episode 1

The first episode of the OpenRouter Show introduces the hosts, Tomas and Shashank, who discuss OpenRouter's feature developments and data insights in the AI ecosystem. They announce the beta launch of their TypeScript SDK, emphasizing its type-safe nature and ease of use, with plans for Python, Java, and C++ versions. The hosts delve into the topic of provider variants, highlighting the complexities of model serving and introducing Xacto, a product designed to improve tool calling performance. They also cover new modalities such as video inputs and embeddings, and welcome Hans and Dan from RuCode, who share their experiences using OpenRouter's embeddings models to enhance their coding agent's codebase indexing feature. The episode concludes with a recap of announcements and a preview of the next episode, which will focus on reasoning models.