Base44 Deploys Its Own LLM for App Generation, Twelve Months After Wix Acquisition

Base44 moved Base-1, a proprietary large language model, into production by late June 2026, approximately one year after Wix's $80 million acquisition. The platform is now the first app-creation environment to run on a purpose-built model rather than third-party APIs. Purpose-built models can optimize for code generation's specific demands—multi-file coherence, framework convention adherence—more directly than generalist frontier models. Verification of performance gains remains pending.