U.K. scaleup Radiant merges with Ori Industries, backed by Brookfield’s AI fund, to build a vertically integrated, sovereign AI infrastructure platform.
Radiant, a British AI infrastructure scaleup, announced on Tuesday that it has merged with Ori Industries, combining Ori’s distributed AI cloud software with Radiant’s global compute and powered land strategy. The deal marks Radiant’s transition from buildout to full operations.
The combined company positions itself as a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider — uniting utility-scale powered land, long-term capital and proprietary AI software into what executives describe as a global “AI utility.”
Radiant builds and operates large-scale AI factories for enterprises, telecommunications providers and sovereign institutions. Its model emphasizes long-term contracts, utility-grade economics and operational resilience tailored to the sustained demands of the AI economy.
Ori, founded more than seven years ago, developed a distributed AI cloud software stack used by sovereign governments, telecom operators and corporations. Following the merger, Ori’s platform and engineering team will serve as the software layer atop Radiant’s physical data centers and compute assets.
Backed by Brookfield’s AI Ambitions
As part of the transaction, Radiant becomes the first compute deployment vehicle and second seed investment of Brookfield Asset Management’s AI Infrastructure Fund. The fund, known as BAIIF, provides Radiant access to a broader $100 billion investment program dedicated to AI infrastructure.
The partnership is designed to secure the long-term capital required to develop an integrated ecosystem that combines sovereign compute, proprietary software and powered land into a unified platform.
Radiant’s infrastructure will be based on NVIDIA’s DSX reference architecture, positioning the company to deliver high-density AI compute under long-term agreements with governments, telecommunications providers and select global enterprises.
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Addressing the AI Supply Imbalance
Mahdi Yahya, founder and chief executive of Ori and now president of Radiant, described the merger as a natural evolution.
“For more than seven years, our team has been building toward this moment — designing software that could enable infrastructure for AI at scale,” he said. “Through Radiant we can challenge the supply-demand imbalance that has defined AI since the release of advanced LLMs in 2023.”
Yahya argued that the next phase of AI growth will depend less on model breakthroughs and more on infrastructure capable of delivering reliable, affordable compute at scale. Rising demand for generative AI workloads has strained global data center capacity, intensifying competition for power, cooling and capital.
Radiant contends that structural advantages in capital costs, access to powered land and integrated software will allow it to operate more like a utility than a conventional cloud provider.
The company said it will continue operating the Ori Global AI Cloud for customers requiring on-demand capacity and rapid deployment, even as it expands long-term sovereign and enterprise contracts.
In a market defined by scarcity — of GPUs, of power and of capital — Radiant is making an audacious claim: that AI’s future may be built not just in code, but in concrete, copper and balance sheets.
