At a conference in Paris on Wednesday, "Shark Tank" investor Mark Cuban said that AI coding services like Lovable have add-on services that could prevent them from being replaced by AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI. Cuban, a Lovable investor, referred to CEO Anton Osika's comments that Lovable has moved from being a tool for writing code to a more all-inclusive platform where founders can incorporate businesses and set up payment systems. "People saw us as an AI software engineer, the product. Now what we're increasingly seeing is that people see Lovable as their partner, as literally their AI cofounder," Osika said. Cuban's comments follow a period of brutal comparisons between vibe-coding startups and Anthropic's Claude Code after Anthropic released Opus 4.6 earlier this year, with founders and developers saying on X they were ditching Cursor and Lovable subscriptions for Claude Code. Lovable's head of growth, Elena Verna, said in a March podcast that she worries about "OpenAIs, Anthropics, Googles, Apples, more so than our competitors that spring up from the bottom or from sideways" due to their unparalleled distribution power. Separately, Perplexity is working on an AI coding tool codenamed "Teammate" that has been used internally since May.