Michael Louis, CEO and Founder at Cerebrium. Cerebrium is a platform to deploy machine learning models to serverless GPUs with sub-5 second cold-start times.
Episode Highlights:
- Michael Louis started OneCart, a grocery delivery platform in South Africa, which saw explosive growth during COVID-19, scaling to $200K/day in revenue before being acquired by Walmart.
- After leaving Walmart, Michael founded Cerebrium to simplify AI infrastructure, inspired by the challenges of deploying machine learning models at OneCart.
- Cerebrium optimizes AI inference with GPU checkpointing, direct disk-to-GPU data transfer, and efficient container runtimes, reducing latency and compute costs by ~40%.
- Michael advises startups to validate AI use cases with OpenAI before committing to fine-tuning or custom models, emphasizing usability and business impact over technical complexity.
- He predicts AI will shift company expenses from salaries to compute costs, with voice AI and automation leading the next wave of adoption.
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