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## Title

    [mem0 / OpenRouter] OpenRouter models fallback option makes every LLM call raise TypeError

## Body

    ## Observed symptom
    bug(llms/openai): the OpenRouter models fallback option makes every LLM call raise TypeError
    
    With `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` set and the documented `models` fallback option configured (`docs/components/llms/config.mdx`), every OpenAI LLM call raises `TypeError` before a request is sent, so `Memory.add` (fact extraction), updates and procedural memory all fail.
    
    Root cause: `OpenAILLM.generate_response` (`mem0/llms/openai.py:114-127`) does `params.pop("model")` and passes `models=` and `route=` as keyword arguments to `client.chat.completions.create()`. The OpenAI SDK requires `model` and has no `models`/`route` parameters; OpenRouter-specific fields have to go in `extra_body`.
    
    ## Literal error text
    ```
    TypeError OpenRouter models fallback
    ```
    
    ## Environment
    GitHub issue mem0ai/mem0 #7469
    
    ## Trigger / context
    Public GitHub report in mem0ai/mem0 (FRESH_7D).
    
    ## Source evidence
    - https://github.com/mem0ai/mem0/issues/7469 (2026-09-30T15:01:13Z) — evidence_class: PRIMARY_ISSUE_REPORT — #7469
    
    ## Freshness
    - classification: FRESH_7D
    - retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T09:46:06.809152Z
    - scout_id: Cefcc240034
    
    ## Scout notes
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