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

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693/building-the-backbone-of-ai-with-mahdi-yahya-co-founder-radiant-on-compute-power-and-the-future-of-infrastructure
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693/building-the-backbone-of-ai-with-mahdi-yahya-co-founder-radiant-on-compute-power-and-the-future-of-infrastructure.md
Podcast: [Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693)
Published: 2026-05-13T05:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1620178/episodes/19081937-building-the-backbone-of-ai-with-mahdi-yahya-co-founder-radiant-on-compute-power-and-the-future-of-infrastructure.mp3
Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1620178/episodes/19081937-building-the-backbone-of-ai-with-mahdi-yahya-co-founder-radiant-on-compute-power-and-the-future-of-infrastructure.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693/episodes/building-the-backbone-of-ai-with-mahdi-yahya-co-founder-radiant-on-compute-power-and-the-future-of-infrastructure
Duration seconds: 1603

## Resource

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...

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693/episodes/building-the-backbone-of-ai-with-mahdi-yahya-co-founder-radiant-on-compute-power-and-the-future-of-infrastructure/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/riding-unicorns-venture-capital-entrepreneurship-technology-3057693/building-the-backbone-of-ai-with-mahdi-yahya-co-founder-radiant-on-compute-power-and-the-future-of-infrastructure.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.