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

About this episode

Mahdi Yahya discusses the evolution and challenges of building AI infrastructure at Radiant.

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 t...

People in this episode

Guest: Mahdi Yahya

Topics covered

• AI infrastructure
• technology shifts
• data centers
• telecoms
• business lessons

Keywords

• AI infrastructure
• Mahdi Yahya
• Radiant
• Brookfield
• Ori
• data centers
• telecoms
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Radiant, Brookfield, Ori

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