AI Minds #053 | Michael Louis, CEO and Founder at Cerebrium

07/02/2025 19 min Episodio 53
AI Minds #053 | Michael Louis, CEO and Founder at Cerebrium

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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.----------------------------Connect with Michael Louis:https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-louis-94104a113/https://www.cerebrium.ai/Connect with Demetrios:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/Connect with Deepgram:https://deepgram.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepgramhttps://twitter.com/deepgramaihttps://www.facebook.com/deepgram/Join the Deepgram Discord Server!https://discord.com/invite/xWRaCDBtW4