Building the backbone of AI with Mahdi Yahya, Co-Founder @ Radiant on Compute, Power and the Future of Infrastructure

Episode notes

Mahdi Yahya, Founder and CEO of Ori, is now part of Radiant following its partnership with Brookfield. Mahdi is building at the centre of one of the most important shifts in technology: the global race to scale AI infrastructure. We cover: From telecoms to data centres: lessons from building infrastructure businesses from age 20 Why Ori chose the harder path of building for a future that did not yet exist What “AI infrastructure” actually means, from GPU clusters to orchestration software The Radiant model: combining capital, power, compute and software into a single platform Why AI is becoming sovereign infrastructure and what that means for governments Where value will accrue in the AI stack across hardware, infrastructure and applications The importance of vertical integration and marginal gains in a capital-intensive market Two pivotal decisions that shaped the company, including early acquisition and moving into physical infrastructure Founder resilience and the simple rule: stay alive Mahdi also shares his perspective on the next wave of AI companies, the opportunity in inference, and why robotics could be the next breakout category.

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