The New Stack interview with Base44 CEO Maor Shlomo (July 2026): Base One is fine-tuned open-source LLM with RL on tens of millions of real app-building interactions — not trained from scratch. In production serving users.
Wix acquired Base44 for 3M to $150M ARR in under a year. Collaboration with Wix ML team (Wix Harmony). Model tuned to Base44 agentic harness. Bet: narrow domain-specific model beats frontier generalists for vibe-coded web apps.
First proprietary model for app-creation platform per company claim.