Dossier
Base 1
Coverage of Base 1 in the Nexus archive.
- 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.
- Base44's CEO says the company built its own model to stop churning out AI-slop designs
Base44's CEO Maor Shlomo announced the launch of Base 1, the company's custom AI model designed to avoid generic 'AI-slop' designs in website creation. The model aims to generate unique user interfaces by leveraging Wix's design data and reinforcement learning, though it is not yet fully achieving this goal.