OpenAI's App Store Relaunch, Google's Vibe-Coding App Launch, and a $180 Million Automation Tool
OpenAI's App Store Relaunch, Google's Vibe-Coding App Launch, and a $180 Million Automation Tool
What OpenAI is really up to, Google's fierce counterattack (This Week's AI War Report). Your app is coming to ChatGPT (This week's can't-miss AI news). AI Weekly: OpenAI's App Store Relaunch, Google's Vibe-Coding App Launch, 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 secured a $180 million investment.
Feeling lost in the whirlwind of news? Don't worry. A PM with 6 years of experience at an AI startup will perfectly dissect 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 secured a $180 million investment.
If you just skim these news items, 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 at an AI startup, I will perfectly 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 failed?", you're half right and half wrong.
The old GPTs were more about sharing chatbots we created with others. It was like a well-made marketplace for sharing 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 as if they were 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 immediately 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 solve everything with a single command inside our ChatGPT."
It's a formidable strategy to completely lock users into their ecosystem.
So, what opportunities does this present for solo entrepreneurs or small teams like us?
A huge opportunity. Now, without spending a fortune on developing a separate app, a path has opened up for us to implement our ideas as apps within ChatGPT—the platform with the most traffic in the world—and even generate revenue. The person who creates the most useful mini-app inside ChatGPT could become the winner in this new market.
Second event: Google's counterattack, the launch of the AI vibe-coding app Opal.
As OpenAI moved to expand its ecosystem, Google, of course, didn't just stand by.
Google has launched an AI vibe-coding app called Opal.
It's still in a closed preview, so the exact nature of Opal is shrouded in mystery. However, based on the information released so far, it seems to be a service that generates functional code from text-based ideas, similar to Lovable or Tempo, which we often cover on our channel.
From a PM's perspective, this move by Google is very significant.
Unlike OpenAI, Google isn't trying to dominate the market with a single, powerful model. They are 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, much like the mobile war between Apple and Google, the AI market is evolving beyond a battle of model performance into a battle of ecosystems.
Third event: Automation tool n8n secures $180 million in funding.
Lastly, this might be the most important news of the day.
A company with a rather 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's differentiator is that it's open-source and allows 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 in the age of AI isn't the fancy 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? They're useless if you can't connect those ideas to actual business processes to increase revenue and reduce costs.
VCs saw the value in that connection, and that's why they bet $180 million on it.
Conclusion: The Single Opportunity You Must Seize This Week Alright, let's sum it up.
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 solutions for people's specific problems.
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 paradigm shift, what opportunity will you seize?
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Originally published on YouTube: 11/6/2025