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Draper Dragon Announces Investment in AI Computing Routing Protocol LeapNode

On August 24, it was officially announced that investment firm Draper Dragon has invested in the AI computing routing protocol LeapNode. LeapNode integrates over 100 cutting-edge AI models (including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Llama 4 Maverick, DeepSeek V3/R1, Qwen 3, etc.) through a single API Key, creating a plug-and-play infrastructure. Test data shows that this mechanism can save developers 70%-90% on inference costs while maintaining 99.9% availability (with automatic failover among multiple vendors), and new models can be integrated within 48 hours of public release. In the future, LeapNode also plans to extend into the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) economy, providing infrastructure for autonomous payments and settlements between AI agents, aiming to become the core settlement layer of the AI Agent ecosystem.

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