Michel Combes

person · Chief Executive Officer, Lambda, Inc.Credibility: 55%

Why this score? Chief executive of an AI cloud provider that funds itself with asset-backed debt. Reliable on his own company's completed transactions, but a directly interested voice on the durability and investability of AI-infrastructure credit — the asset class he issues into and intends to return to. Baseline set at the level used for founder/CEO voices making market-standing claims about their own sector, below the news-organization band and below institutionally disinterested analysts. No track record scored yet.

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An investment-grade rating on a term loan B signals that AI infrastructure has arrived as an investable asset class, standing alongside other contracted, income-producing assets.^?

— Michel Combes · Aug 27, 2026

Topic: state of ai/the money/debt and credit

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Context: Recorded on the day it was made; not yet checkable. What would settle it is whether GPU-collateralised paper keeps its investment-grade ratings through a hardware cycle and finds repeat buyers, or whether this rating turns out to rest on one unnamed investment-grade customer rather than on the collateral.