Overview

• Opal, Google Labs’ AI tool for building mini web apps from natural-language prompts, is rolling out beyond the U.S. to Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras, Argentina, and Pakistan.
• A new no-code debugging experience lets creators run workflows step by step in the visual editor or refine a specific step in the console with errors surfaced at the exact point of failure.
• Under-the-hood upgrades reduce app creation latency, previously up to about five seconds, and enable parallel execution so multi-step workflows can run simultaneously.
• Users can inspect and customize the generated visual workflow, edit prompts at any step, add new steps, and publish shareable web links that others can test with their Google accounts.
• Google describes Opal as an ongoing experiment responding to unexpectedly sophisticated early use cases and situates it within the growing no-code market alongside tools from Canva, Figma, and Replit, with a community hub on Discord.