The Heaven Found by the AI Savior, and Its Illusion

🎯 Why OpenAI Chose Korea

“We create artificial intelligence for all humanity.”

He always said that.
But businessman Sam Altman chose ‘infrastructure’ before choosing ‘humanity’.
His visit to Korea was not a technological decision, but a choice for survival.

Amidst the US-Korea trade adjustments over the past few years,
Korea emerged as a new axis of global AI infrastructure.
Altman precisely rode that wave.
After securing massive investment from Nvidia,
he even joined hands with AMD, completing the justification of ‘preventing monopoly’.
Outwardly, he was a market balancer,
in reality, he was a dealer holding all the cards.

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💭 The AI Industry Bubble Has Not Ended

This app platformization at this DEV DAY is in the same context.
A structure that forces developers and startups to participate in the ecosystem,
even though MCP is not yet fully supported.

In fact, many of the features provided by OpenAI
are already being implemented in much more specialized ways by independent apps.
An app with limited writing capabilities is hard to even call an app.
Ultimately, he is once again expanding his own fence
under the name of ‘innovation’.

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🧠 Businessman and Savior, and Illusion

Altman is less a cold strategist
and more a survivor cleverly riding the wave of the bubble.
He speaks of ‘ethics’ and ‘public good’,
but those words are always on the first slide of investment briefings.

To him, AI is not technology, but narrative.
And Korea was the stage to re-launch that narrative.
Regulations are flexible, semiconductors are fast,
and the government prioritizes collaboration over public opinion.
The heaven found by the ‘AI savior’ was created that way.

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⚖️ Joining Hands with Kakao, the Boundary of Data Ethics

The alliance with Kakao was symbolic.
The moment he joined hands with a platform holding vast user data in Korea,
OpenAI went beyond a simple language model
and secured structural access to everyday data.

The problem is what comes next.
Who will use that data, and by what standards?
In a market where speed precedes transparency, and efficiency precedes ethics,
the boundaries of data are increasingly blurred.
It’s not the advancement of AI,
but a new territorial war over data ownership that has begun.

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🌌 Technological Progress, or the Fatigue of Faith

The next stage of the AI industry is no longer about performance improvement.
At the tail end of the bubble, what remains is not faith, but fatigue.
People still want to believe in ‘innovation’,
but they pay an increasingly high price to maintain that belief.

Altman’s visit to Korea is a new signal built on that fatigue.
It’s not technology, but the technology of managing faith.
The heaven he chose might just be
the last bubble where AI comforts humanity.