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 LLMOps Tools & Compare them to MLOPs
LLMOps platforms handle the operational side of running large language models: deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and cost management. We examined top LLMOps tools, their core features, pricing models, and how they differ from each other to help identify the best fit for various use cases. A breakdown of each metric is provided below: LLMOps platforms support…
Large Action Models: Hype or Real?
Following the launch of Rabbit, an AI device that can use mobile apps, the term large action models (LAMs) is getting popular. These models move beyond conversation by turning LLMs into “agents” that can connect the siloed, app-driven world without requiring users to click on apps or integrate APIs. The line between hype and reality…
Top 10 Open Source Web Crawlers for LLM & AI
Recent advances in generative AI have reshaped what developers need from web crawlers. Agentic crawlers now use natural-language prompts to select links rather than fixed rules, and produce token-efficient markdown natively. At the same time, the classic frameworks for large-scale batch crawling remain irreplaceable for enterprise and research use. Language: Python | License: Apache 2.0…
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ): Examples & Architecture
A Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) network is a subnetwork containing an organization’s publicly accessible services. It serves as an exposed point to an untrusted network, often the Internet. DMZs are used across various environments, from home routers to enterprise networks, to isolate public-facing services and protect internal systems. DMZs (demilitarized zones) host public-facing services while isolating…
AI Data Quality in 2026: Challenges & Best Practices
Poor data quality delays the successful deployment of AI and ML projects. 23 Even the most advanced AI algorithms can yield flawed results if the underlying data is of low quality. Explore the importance of data quality in AI, the challenges organizations encounter, and the best practices for ensuring high-quality data: Data quality is essential…
Top 15+ Data as a Service Companies
Data as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud model that delivers data on demand, usually on a subscription. It lets a business buy the datasets it needs without collecting and storing the data itself. See the top data as a service companies and data types they provide, the key features such as data analytics, and…
AI Code Review Tools Benchmark
With the increased use of AI coding tools, codebases have become more prone to vulnerabilities, which increased the need for effective code reviews. To address this, we introduce RevEval (AI Code Review Eval), which benchmarks the top four AI code review tools across 309 pull requests from repositories of varying sizes and evaluates their performance…
Best AI Code Editor: Cursor vs Windsurf vs Replit
Making an app without coding skills is highly trending right now. But can these tools successfully build and deploy an app? We benchmarked 6 AI code editors across 10 real-world web development challenges. Each task required implementations such as backend, frontend, authentication, state management. We evaluated backend correctness, frontend behavior, and combined performance, and analyzed…
Compare Large Vision Models: GPT-4o vs YOLOv8n
Large vision models (LVMs) can automate and improve visual tasks such as defect detection, medical diagnosis, and environmental monitoring. We benchmarked three object detection models: YOLOv8n, DETR, and GPT-4o Vision, across 1,000 images each, measuring metrics such as mAP@0.5, inference speed, FLOPs, and parameter count. To ensure a fair comparison, all images were resized to…
LLM Inference Engines: vLLM vs LMDeploy vs SGLang
We benchmarked 3 leading LLM inference engines on NVIDIA H100: vLLM, LMDeploy, and SGLang. Each engine processed identical workloads: 1,000 ShareGPT prompts using Llama 3.1 8B-Instruct to isolate the true performance impact of their architectural choices and optimization strategies. We measured offline batch throughput across 10,000 total inference operations (1,000 prompts × 10 runs per…
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