How far can AI go – Laura Modiano, OpenAI

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Laura Modiano, head of startups at OpenAI, discusses just how far artificial intelligence has advanced since the launch of ChatGPT, how AI is drastically accelerating the growth rates of businesses and how far the company’s flagship product can go.

OpenAI is the creator of ChatGPT and is among the largest AI companies globally. Valued this year at $500bn, it is the most valuable private company in the world and has worked extensively with the British government on its AI ambitions.

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0:00.0	When we launched chat GPT,
0:10.0	instead of having to search for answers and ask questions and then do search,
0:16.0	to asking a question and getting answers.
0:18.0	Now you can ask AI and agents to actually take action for you.
0:22.6	In 2025 alone, we've had 16 unicorns out of Europe compared to 13 and 24 and only 7 in 2023,
0:31.6	because we're seeing more and more companies building a lot faster, using more of the tools that are available on the API,
0:39.3	across, again, multiple applications. So we're giving developers a path to reach the 800 million
0:47.7	chat chip-tete users who are on our consumer side through what it is that they're building
0:52.7	on their application side. From the first-time founders to the funds that back them, innovation needs different.
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1:20.7	slash EN-GB. Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:39.8	I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and today I am joined by Laura Modiano, head of startups at OpenAI. Welcome, Laura. Thank you so much for having me. It's such a pleasure to be here, Jake. Oh, it's very exciting for me because, of course, Open AI is one of the most exciting companies around. And hopefully we'll get to talk about some of that later. But I want to start by talking about your job title, actually,
2:02.3	because it's an unusual job title for a tech company to have a start-ups division.
2:07.9	So tell me a bit about what it is you do and how Open AI works with startups.
2:12.9	Thank you.
2:13.3	I actually really, really love my job.
2:15.2	And I think that my job is quite essential in the ecosystem
2:18.4	because at OpenAI, we work with companies of all sizes across all industries.
2:25.4	Personally, I work with startups, so early stage companies that are either just starting out,
2:30.6	have just gotten funding, maybe they're an accelerator, and some that are growing,
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