Today on the AI Daily Brief, meet the open source model that is outperforming GPT5 and basically everyone else when it comes to agentic performance.

Before that in the headlines, maybe vibe goading isn't dead after all.

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five minutes. Apparently,

rumors of vibe coding's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Speaking with TechCrunch on Monday,

Loveable CEO, Antonio Ocica, said that the company is closing in on 8 million users, dramatic

growth from their 2.3 million active users back in July. Ocica claimed the company is now seeing

100,000 new products

built on Lovable every single day. We didn't get a new revenue number, but Lovable crossed the $100 million

ARR milestone back in June, and there are currently rumors of new funding being raised at a $5 billion

valuation, which would almost triple their valuation from fundraising over the summer.

Now, part of the interview addressed a report

from Barclays in September, which showed that traffic to Lovable had dropped by 40% since a peak

in August. Oseka said that retention was still strong, with 100% net dollar retention, meaning

the average user spends more over time. Now, of the major vibe coding startups, Lovable might be the

one that's most focused on empowering non-coters. The platform not only enables easy prototyping, but is increasingly being used to deploy full products. If you've ever been on AIDailybrief.aI, for example, that is built, maintained, and hosted all with help from Lovable. Now, when it comes to where the company is focused, it follows from that same specialization. Oseka said the part of the engineering organization that we're moving the quickest on hiring is security engineers. He said that the goal is to

make building with lovable more secure than building with just human written code. Now, in terms of

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