Cem Dilmegani
Cem's work at AIMultiple has been cited by leading global publications including Business Insider, Forbes, Morning Brew, Washington Post, global firms like HPE, NGOs like World Economic Forum and supranational organizations like European Commission. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
Professional experience & achievements
Throughout his career, Cem served as a tech consultant, tech buyer and tech entrepreneur. He advised enterprises on their technology decisions at McKinsey & Company and Altman Solon for more than a decade. He also published a McKinsey report on digitalization.He led technology strategy and procurement of a telco while reporting to the CEO. He has also led commercial growth of deep tech company Hypatos that reached a 7 digit annual recurring revenue and a 9 digit valuation from 0 within 2 years. Cem's work in Hypatos was covered by leading technology publications like TechCrunch and Business Insider. [6], [7]
Research interests
Cem's work focuses on how enterprise AI and software.Cem's hands-on enterprise software experience contributes to his work. Other AIMultiple industry analysts and the tech team support Cem in designing, running and evaluating benchmarks.
Education
He graduated as a computer engineer from Bogazici University in 2007. During his engineering degree, he studied machine learning at a time when it was commonly called "data mining" and most neural networks had a few hidden layers.He holds an MBA degree from Columbia Business School in 2012.
Cem is fluent in English and Turkish. He is at an advanced level in German and beginner level in French.
External publications
- Cem Dilmegani, Post-AI Banking: Millions of jobs at risk as banks automate their core functions. International Banker.
- Cem Dilmegani, Bengi Korkmaz, and Martin Lundqvist (December 1, 2014).Public-sector digitization: The trillion-dollar challenge, McKinsey & Company.
Media, conference & other event presentations
- Hosted on American Variety Radio, answering Court Lewis' questions on AGI on April 25th, 2026.
- Answered Korea24's questions on job loss due to AI on November 5th, 2025. Recording available on: Korea24
- Real Estate and Technology, presented by Hofstra University’s Wilbur F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies and the Frank G. Zarb School of Business in 2023 and 2024.
- Radar AI session (June 22, 2023): "Increasing Data Science Impact with ChatGPT".
- Generative AI Atlanta meetup: Generative AI for Enterprise Technology.
Sources
- Why Microsoft, IBM, and Google Are Ramping up Efforts on AI Ethics, Business Insider.
- Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to pursue artificial intelligence that’s smarter than we are, Washington Post.
- Empowering AI Leadership: AI C-Suite Toolkit, World Economic Forum.
- Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU, European Commission.
- EU’s €200 billion AI investment pushes cash into data centers, but chip market remains a challenge, IT Brew.
- Hypatos gets $11.8M for a deep learning approach to document processing, TechCrunch.
- We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck AI startup Hypatos used to raise $11 million, Business Insider.
Latest Articles from Cem
Top 13 GAN Use Cases
While GANs pioneered many early generative AI applications, particularly in image synthesis and style transfer, most consumer-facing generative AI tools today rely on diffusion-based architectures or related approaches such as flow matching and diffusion transformers (DiT). However, GANs remain important in specific domains, such as super-resolution, face restoration, the generation of synthetic tabular or healthcare…
Local AI Agents: Goose, Observer AI, AnythingLLM
Local AI agents are often described as offline, on-device, or fully local. We spent three days mapping the ecosystem of local AI agents that run autonomously on personal hardware without depending on external APIs or cloud services. Our analysis categorizes the leading solutions into three key areas, based on hands-on testing across developer agents, automation…
IT Documentation Benchmark & Review
We evaluated the leading IT documentation platforms to assess their performance, features, and usability. Our benchmark measured document creation workflows, editor capabilities, search accuracy, and relationship management across real-world scenarios, including error code searches, PDF content indexing, and command syntax preservation. *NinjaOne auto-saves drafts but doesn’t display them separately. Starting a new draft brings up…
Compare Best AI Agents in Customer Service
AI agents powered by large language models (LLMs) can respond to customer queries in natural language, interpret context, and generate human-like responses. These agents can process and synthesize large volumes of information from sources such as knowledge bases. We compiled four customer service AI agents: Tidio Lyro, Microsoft Azure AI Chatbot, IBM Watsonx Assistant, and…
2026 Web Crawler Benchmark to Feed Websites to AI
We benchmarked four crawl APIs across three domains of varying difficulty at three max depth levels (5, 10, 20) with a 1,000-page limit, measuring crawl coverage, execution time, link discovery, markdown link quality, and title extraction accuracy. If you aim to: You can read our benchmark methodology. Firecrawl consistently crawled around 100 pages on theregister.com…
Multimodal Embedding Models: Apple vs Meta vs OpenAI
Multimodal embedding models excel at identifying objects but struggle with relationships. Current models struggle to distinguish “phone on a map” from “map on a phone.” We benchmarked 7 leading models across MS-COCO and Winoground to measure this specific limitation. To ensure a fair comparison, we evaluated every model under identical conditions using NVIDIA A40 hardware…
RAG Evaluation Tools: Weights & Biases vs Ragas vs DeepEval
When a RAG pipeline retrieves the wrong context, the LLM confidently generates the wrong answer. Context relevance scorers are the primary defense. We benchmarked five tools across 1,460 questions and 14,600+ scored contexts under identical conditions: same judge model (GPT-4o), default configurations, and no custom prompts. Under standard conditions, WandB, TruLens, and Ragas emerged as…
Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Deepgram vs. Whisper
We benchmarked the leading speech-to-text (STT) providers, focusing specifically on healthcare applications. Our benchmark used real-world examples to assess transcription accuracy in medical contexts, where precision is crucial. Based on both word error rate (WER) and character error rate (CER) results, GPT-4o-transcribe demonstrates the highest transcription accuracy among all evaluated speech-to-text systems. Deepgram Nova-v3 and…
Top 5 Network Security Policy Management Solutions
I have identified the top 5 NSPM solutions, multi-vendor and vendor-native tools, based on my & other users’ experiences and vendor features. Follow the links to see the reasoning behind these selections: Digital companies should utilize network security policy management solutions (NSPM) to govern, monitor, and enforce policies across their entire network. Multi-vendor network security…
Remote Browsers: Web Infra for AI Agents Compared
AI agents rely on remote browsers to automate web tasks without being blocked by anti-scraping measures. The performance of this browser infrastructure is critical to an agent’s success. We benchmarked 8 providers on success rate, speed, and features. To do this, we executed 160 automated tasks, running 4 distinct scenarios 5 times for each service…
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