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We pitted Base 44's new AI model against Anthropic's to build the same website. One was faster.
Base44 launched its AI model Base 1, which outperformed Anthropic's Opus 4.8 in speed and cost-efficiency when building a website. The model aims to reduce generic 'AI-slop' design seen in products using frontier models like Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, or Gemini 3.
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