• Michael Louis founded Cerebrium in 2021 to automate AI application deployment and scaling.

• The platform supports real-time voice assistants, multimodal systems and large-scale data processing.

• Cerebrium operates on a pay-as-you-go pricing model that charges users based on actual consumption.

Michael Louis is a South African entrepreneur and engineer specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure. He founded and leads Cerebrium, an online platform that helps teams build AI applications more easily.

Louis founded Cerebrium in 2021 with the mission of helping users create artificial intelligence products “that people love” while simplifying operational complexity. The platform supports various types of applications, including real-time voice assistants, multimodal systems that combine text, image and audio, and large-scale data processing workloads.

Cerebrium’s value proposition focuses on transforming a typically long and complex process — deploying, maintaining and scaling AI applications — into a streamlined and automated experience. Applications built on Cerebrium can launch quickly and can automatically adjust capacity based on demand, enabling them to handle a high volume of simultaneous requests. The platform also differentiates itself through a usage-based pricing model that allows customers to pay only for actual consumption without locking up idle resources.

Before founding Cerebrium, Louis co-founded Sxuirrel in 2016 and served as Chief Technology Officer until 2019. The company developed an interactive mobile application that connected individuals seeking storage space with those offering available space.

Louis graduated from Stellenbosch University with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science in 2016 and a bachelor’s degree in data science in 2018. From 2019 to 2021, he worked at OneCart, a South African online grocery delivery company, where he served as Lead Developer and later as Chief Technology Officer.

This article was iniitally published in French by Melchior Koba

Adapted in English by Ange J.A de Berry Quenum