--- title: Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI... description: Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 is rolling out its own custom LLM called Base1, trained on tens of millions of real user interactions. The move is framed... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vibe-coding-platform-base44-launches-own-model-as-ai-startups-seek-defensibility-zedrjrh8g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility | daily.dev og:description: Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 is rolling out its own custom LLM called Base1, trained on tens of millions of real user interactions. The move is framed... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vibe-coding-platform-base44-launches-own-model-as-ai-startups-seek-defensibility-zedrjrh8g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZEDrjrH8G.png og:image:alt: Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 is rolling out its own custom LLM called Base1, trained on tens of millions of real user interactions. The move is framed as a defensibility play — giving Base44 control over latency, cost, and inference spend rather than relying on frontier models like Claude Opus. Founder Maor Shlomo argues specialization will outperform general-purpose frontier models for app creation use cases. The broader context is a growing debate in AI circles about whether applied AI startups built on third-party models are truly defensible long-term, with data, distribution, and tech stack ownership cited as the three pillars of defensibility. Base44 reports $100M ARR, trails competitor Lovable's $500M ARR, and faces increasing competition from frontier labs like Anthropic (Claude Code) and xAI (Grok/Cursor via SpaceX). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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