The Information: Meta's Applied AI Engineering Incubator Building Internal OpenRouter to Cut Coding-Agent Costs

Documents seen by The Information show AAI Labs, an internal incubator inside Meta's Applied AI Engineering group, is building a model router modeled on OpenRouter that would slash coding-agent bills by sending cheaper tasks to lower-cost models. The move mirrors Ramp's public router launch and Shopify's frontier-only policy, and puts Meta on both sides of the router market alongside its own model releases.