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Osika: 50% chance the best AI model comes from China
“I do think there's like a fifty-fifty chance they will have the best model. We'll be using a Chinese model at some point, because...”
Osika: AI will replace traditional, detailed manual software design workflows
“The way of doing it right now with the design, what like one person does all the design very slowly, very detailed is going to be replaced by AI doing, you talk much more high level, and you talk about your design philosophy, and then the AI does the implement…”
Osika: AI will devalue knowledge work just as fine art lost profitability
“I think we're going to have, like, Maybe a shift away from some very glamorous jobs, which people will be get depressed by, like similarly to how being like an artist was like so fucking cool, but clearly you can't make any money as an artist. I think we're go…”
Osika: Lovable's 85% month-one retention outperforms ChatGPT
“We have month one retention that's better than ChatGPT's month one retention on paying customers, and so it's about 85%.”
Osika: OpenAI has lost all of its best talent to Anthropic
“OpenAI lost all their best talent to Anthropic”
Osika: OpenAI will be a bigger competitor to Lovable than Anthropic
“OpenAI is doing that better than Anthropic. So I see them as a more serious competitor in, in, in 12 months.”
Osika: Lovable plans to spend $100M hiring top model-training talent
“And we have to do it both with like how we build this agentic chain and over time in building absolutely world-class paying a hundred million dollars for getting the people that train the models. So, so that's on the horizon for us to get it to like be hyper-p…”
Osika: General AI progress will plateau while bioengineering advances exponentially
“Yeah, we're going to see a plateauing. There's some sigmoid curves where I think we're still in this, like, exponential phase of the sigmoid curve, so it and those could be something like science and engineering, and like bioengineering, where AI is just going…”
Osika: The best AI models will always remain closed-source
“I think the best ones will always be closed but if you want maximal flexibility and some kind of open ecosystem around it might be that open ones are the ones that most people choose.”
Osika: Lovable will be the most-used human-AI interface within 5 years
“We're the mostly used interface for humans to AI.”
Osika: Anthropic's enterprise revenue has almost caught up to OpenAI's
“If you look at the enterprise revenue, like, Anthropik is almost caught up to open AI from nothing, from being absolutely dominated”
Osika: Giving AI models long-term memory and context will take years
“What you need to ramp is to decide what, like, the process for storing memory, I think is what you have to ramp and it has to store all of these things. Like my conversation with Harry has to be stored somehow into the system and all like my childhood almost h…”
Osika: No single foundation model provider will win the AI market
“You don't need to be attached to one foundation model provider. They're all going to be amazing. You don't need to There's not going to be one winner here.”
Osika: Per-seat SaaS companies will collapse as AI replaces human employees
“I'm not so read, well read on the public market. It would be a SaaS company. It would be like a SaaS company that has a per seat pricing where those, their ICP is going to be replaced by AI SaaS that just replaces the employees. So the seat, the number of seat…”
Osika: Lovable will expand into general business administration and finance
“Lovable today is your technical co-founder. We want it to be your co-founder in general that handles all the admin, setting up your finance operations”
Osika: Tech megacorps won't build the best products for years
“The big megacorps, they move very slowly in many domains. So they're never going to, in many years, they're not going to have the best product on the market.”
Osika: Lovable applications generate over $10M ARR for AI model providers
“We looked at, like, the number, this was a few months ago, but we looked at how much Revenue is flowing through the AI from lovable applications. Okay. And it was more than ten million dollars in ARR.”
Osika: Hyper-personalization will eliminate detailed AI prompting within five years
“Yes, I think so, but maybe it will evolve in terms of how you do it. It will, like, hyper-personalization takes care of a lot of detailed prompting. That we have to do today.”
Osika: Lovable will act as a full-stack AI co-founder by 2026
“I mean, it's your perfect co-founder that you go to with your idea from the idea stage, but also all the way up to growing your business once you have customers and taking care of like what Elena is doing, optimizing the product for growth, optimizing the prod…”
Osika: Users are building revenue-generating SaaS companies entirely via Lovable prompts
“When we went on to iterate over the coming year, we packaged together all of these things so that you can ask today lovable, I want to build a basically a SaaS business, and then people have built their entire SaaS companies and get made money by just promptin…”