AI Industry News in 1 Minute!
AI Industry News in 1 Minute!
OpenAI's True Intentions, Google's Fierce Counterattack (This Week's AI War Report) Your App is Coming to ChatGPT (This Week's Must-Read AI News) AI Weekly: OpenAI's App Store Relaunch, Google's Vibe-Coding App, and a $180 Million Automation Tool The AI industry has been turned upside down again in just one week.
OpenAI has reopened the ChatGPT App Store, and Google has countered with an AI vibe-coding app. Meanwhile, a little-known automation tool has secured a $180 million investment.
Feeling lost in the whirlwind of news? Don't worry. A PM with 6 years of experience in AI startups will break down the true meaning behind these events and the opportunities you need to seize.
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In the AI industry, the world changes not in a week, but in the blink of an eye.
And this week was no exception, with a flood of dizzying news.
OpenAI launched something new again, Google countered with a new app, and a little-known automation tool secured a $180 million investment.
If you just skim these headlines, they might seem like simple IT gossip. But if you can read the underlying shifts in the game, you'll see immense opportunities.
Today, through the eyes of a PM with six years in AI startups, I'll completely dissect the essence of the three most important events of this week.
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First Event: OpenAI's Relaunch of ChatGPT Apps—What's Their Real Motive?
First off, OpenAI has made another move. They've launched a feature called ChatGPT Apps.
If you're thinking, "Wait, isn't that the thing that came out as 'GPTs' and flopped?" you're half right and half wrong.
The old GPTs were more about sharing chatbots we created with others. It was like a marketplace for well-crafted prompts. But these new Apps are on a whole different level.
Now, within the ChatGPT chat window, we can install and run services from external companies just like apps.
For example, while talking to ChatGPT, you could say, "Create three design drafts in Canva based on what we just discussed," and ChatGPT would instantly call the Canva app to create the designs.
From a PM's perspective, what does this mean?
This blatantly reveals OpenAI's ambition to become more than just a smart chatbot. They want to be a massive platform where all services converge, just like Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store.
They are essentially saying, "Users, stop switching between different apps. Just solve everything with a single command inside our ChatGPT."
It's a terrifying strategy to completely lock users into their ecosystem.
So, what opportunities does this present for solo founders or small teams like us?
A huge opportunity. Now, without spending millions to build a separate app, we have a path to bring our ideas to life as apps and even generate revenue on ChatGPT, one of the world's highest-traffic platforms. Whoever creates the most useful mini-app inside ChatGPT could be the winner of this new market.
Second Event: Google's Counterattack, the Launch of AI Vibe-Coding App Opal
With OpenAI expanding its ecosystem like this, of course, Google didn't just stand by.
Google has launched an AI vibe-coding app called Opal.
It's still in a closed beta, so what Opal is exactly remains under wraps. However, based on the information released so far, it seems to be a service that generates functional code from text-based ideas, much like Lovable or Tempo, which we often discuss on our channel.
From a PM's perspective, this move by Google is very significant.
Google isn't trying to dominate the market with a single powerful model like OpenAI. They're using a strategy of pulling both developers and users into their ecosystem through numerous tools like Android, Google Workspace, and now, Opal.
Just like the mobile war between Apple and Google, this is a clear sign that the AI market is evolving from a battle of model performance into a battle of ecosystems.
Third Event: Automation Tool n8n Secures $180 Million in Funding
Finally, and this might be the most important news of all today.
A company with a somewhat unfamiliar name, n8n, has raised a whopping $180 million—that's about 250 billion won—in its Series C funding round.
n8n is a tool that, like Zapier, connects various apps to automate workflows. But why is so much money pouring into a market where a giant like Zapier already exists?
n8n differentiates itself by being open-source and enabling much more complex and sophisticated, developer-level automation than Zapier.
From a PM's perspective, the message this event sends us is clear.
The real gold mine of the AI era isn't the flashy AI models themselves, but the field of automation—connecting and weaving those models together to solve real-world business problems.
What's the use if an AI generates a hundred brilliant ideas? They're useless unless those ideas are connected to actual work processes to produce results that increase revenue and reduce costs.
VCs saw the value in that connection and bet $180 million on it.
Conclusion: The One Opportunity You Must Seize This Week So, let's summarize.
OpenAI is trying to become a platform, Google is countering with an ecosystem, and the real money is flowing into automation.
What is the single opportunity that all these trends are pointing to?
It's creating small services that use AI to automate specific problems for people.
And now, thanks to OpenAI's ChatGPT Apps, the perfect stage has been set to build and distribute those services.
In the midst of this massive shift, what opportunity will you seize?
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Originally published on YouTube: 11/7/2025