OpenAI's Real Game Plan #pm #ai #workautomation
OpenAI's Real Game Plan #pm #ai #workautomation
OpenAI's Real Game Plan, Google's Insane 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 Vibecoding App, and a $180 Million Automation Tool
The AI industry has been turned on its head again in just one week.
OpenAI reopened the ChatGPT App Store, and Google struck back with an AI vibecoding app. Meanwhile, a little-known automation tool received a $180 million investment.
Feeling lost in the whirlwind of news? Don't worry. As a PM with six years of experience at an AI startup, I'm here to completely break down the true meaning behind all these events and the opportunities we 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.
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 received a massive investment worth about $180 million.
If you just skim these headlines, they might seem like simple IT gossip. But if you can read the underlying shifts in the landscape, you'll see incredible opportunities.
Today, through the eyes of a six-year AI startup PM, I will completely dissect the essence of the three most important events that happened this week.
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First Event: OpenAI Relaunches ChatGPT Apps. What's Their Real Game Plan?
First off, OpenAI has made another big 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 can say, "Create three design drafts in Canva based on what we just discussed," and ChatGPT will instantly call the Canva app to create the designs.
From a PM's perspective, what does this mean?
This is OpenAI blatantly revealing its 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 stay inside our ChatGPT and get everything done with a single command."
It's a formidable strategy to completely lock users into their ecosystem.
So, what opportunities does this present for people like us—solo entrepreneurs or small teams?
A huge opportunity. We no longer need to spend millions developing a separate app. A path has opened up for us to implement our ideas as apps—and even monetize them—on ChatGPT, the platform with the most traffic in the world. The person who creates the most useful mini-app within ChatGPT could become the winner of this new market.
Second Event: Google's Counterattack, the Launch of AI Vibecoding App Opal
As OpenAI moved to expand its ecosystem, Google, of course, didn't just stand by.
Google has launched an AI vibecoding app called Opal.
Opal is still in early access, so the exact details are 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. Instead, they're using a strategy of pulling both developers and users into their ecosystem through numerous tools like Android, Google Workspace, and now, Opal.
It's a clear sign that the AI market, much like the mobile war between Apple and Google, is evolving beyond 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 (approximately 250 billion won) in a Series C funding round.
n8n is a tool that automates workflows by connecting various apps, similar to Zapier. So why is so much money pouring into a market where a giant like Zapier already exists?
n8n's differentiator is that it's open-source, allowing for 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 these models together to solve real-world business problems.
What's the point if an AI can generate a hundred brilliant ideas? Those ideas are useless unless they can be connected to actual business processes to create results, like increasing revenue and reducing costs.
VCs saw the value in that connection, and that's why they bet $180 million.
Conclusion: The Single Opportunity You Need to Seize This Week Alright, let's wrap this up.
OpenAI is trying to become a platform, Google is countering with its ecosystem, and the real money is flocking to 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