Tech Experts Call on South Africa to Scale up Its Digital Infrastructure – The Mail & Guardian

Tech experts call on South Africa to scale up its digital infrastructure – The Mail & Guardian

South Africa needs to accelerate digital transformation and infrastructure to harness the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and meet its goal of ensuring 100% connectivity in the country by 2029.  Although the country has made inroads with developing policies for the adoption of AI, including the National Policy on Data and Cloud, the National AI Policy Framework and the establishment of the AI Institute of South Africa, which laid stron…

Cerebrium Raises $8.5M led by Gradient to Scale the Leading High-Performance Serverless AI Platform

Cerebrium, a serverless AI infrastructure platform founded in Cape Town, is proud to announce an $8.5 million seed round, led by Gradient, Google’s AI venture fund, with participation from Y Combinator, Authentic Ventures, and several strategic angel investors and operators. It’s a remarkable milestone for South African tech, as local founders secure backing from one of the most influential AI investors in the world. The company and its AI platf…

South Africa’s Cerebrium Lands $8.5M to Take on Global AI Infrastructure - Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business

Cerebrium, a rising force in the artificial intelligence infrastructure space, has secured $8.5 million in a seed funding round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture arm. The round also included backing from Y Combinator and Authentic Ventures, signaling strong confidence in Cerebrium’s serverless platform that enables engineers to easily build, scale, and deploy multimodal AI applications. Co-founded by South Africans Michael Lo…