We pitted Base 44's new AI model against Anthropic's to build the same website. One was faster.
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If Base44 can credibly beat frontier models on speed, cost, and design quality for website generation, the battleground shifts from raw capability to vertical tuning and UX. Teams building with LLMs should benchmark specialized models against general ones before defaulting to the usual suspects.
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