🇸🇪 Lovable raises big, ChatGPT sells cars, OpenAI takes its cut

This is your curated recap of the week — fully generated with AI.

Let’s go! The world’s moving too fast, so I summed it up for you.

Lovable raises $200M Series A — and becomes a unicorn in 8 months

What it says Lovable, the AI-powered app builder, just raised a jaw-dropping $200 million Series A, reaching unicorn status before its first birthday. That’s 4–10× bigger than the average Series A in Europe — and globally rare. Since launching in late November 2024, the company has grown to 2.3 million users, including 180k paying subscribers, with $75M ARR in just 7 months. Over 10 million apps have already been built on the platform.

What it means The funding environment may be slow, but category-defining AI platforms that unlock creation for non‑tech users are getting premium treatment. Lovable isn’t just building tech — it’s shaping a new generation of product makers.

This is a loud message: tools for non-techies are no longer niche. They’re the main dish. UX built for “don’t make me read the docs” users is now the standard. That includes your internal tools, by the way.

So unless you’re into building stuff only engineers can love — pivot.

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Bought a car with ChatGPT. No Google. No dealership BS.

True story Jason Faber (ex-Shopify) bought a Toyota Highlander just by chatting with GPT. From model comparisons to dealer options and insurance quotes — everything handled in a chat window.

The takeaway If you’re still optimizing SEO for search results, you might be optimizing for the wrong decade. Product discovery is morphing into an actual conversation. Not a scroll. Not a click. A chat.

Time to ask yourself: what does your funnel look like when the funnel is a thread?

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OpenAI wants a piece of your checkout

What it says OpenAI is testing a native checkout experience in ChatGPT, in collaboration with Shopify. It enables users to complete a purchase directly in chat, and OpenAI earns a commission on each transaction.

What it means OpenAI is becoming more than an assistant — it’s monetizing intent at the moment of action. Commerce is no longer just a site or a store; it’s a surface that reacts to conversation.

Your conversion events might be happening somewhere else now. Somewhere you don’t control. If GPT becomes a transactional layer, you’re not just optimizing your website anymore — you’re competing inside someone else’s UX. And OpenAI just turned from tool to tollbooth.

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Quick hits

• Figma ditches product roadmaps → Monthly AI feature drops have replaced traditional planning at Figma. 🔗 Read more.
• Meta cools on open-source AI → Despite last year’s push, Meta may keep future models closed. 🔗 Read more.

🧃 Wrap-up

• Lovable proves that AI-native creation tools for non-technical users aren’t niche — they’re the next billion-dollar platforms.
• ChatGPT is quietly redefining search, discovery, and decision-making in the funnel.
• OpenAI is turning interfaces into marketplaces — and grabbing a share of the one and only click.
• Growth today means asking: Where is the user making decisions — and who’s getting paid when they do?

So yeah, the game’s changed. Design for conversations, not clicks.