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
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.
RAG Frameworks: LangChain vs LangGraph vs LlamaIndex
We benchmarked 5 RAG frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Haystack, and DSPy, by building the same agentic RAG workflow with standardized components: identical models (GPT-4.1-mini), embeddings (BGE-small), retriever (Qdrant), and tools (Tavily web search). This isolates each framework’s true overhead and token efficiency.
Top 5 AI Services to Enhance Business Efficiency
AI adoption is rapidly increasing. Around 98% of companies are experimenting with AI, reflecting its growing accessibility and potential to improve operations. Yet only 26% have advanced beyond trials to achieve measurable business value, showing that many are still building the capabilities needed to scale AI effectively.
15 Threats to the Security of AI Agents
Even a few years ago, the unpredictability of large language models (LLMs) would have posed serious challenges. One notable early case involved ChatGPT’s search tool: researchers found that webpages designed with hidden instructions (e.g., embedded prompt-injection text) could reliably cause the tool to produce biased, misleading outputs, despite the presence of contrary information.
15 AI Agent Observability Tools in 2026: AgentOps & Langfuse
AI agent observability tools, such as Langfuse and Arize, help gather detailed traces (a record of a program or transaction’s execution) and provide dashboards to track metrics in real time. Many agent frameworks, like LangChain, use the OpenTelemetry standard to share metadata with agentic monitoring. On top of that, many observability tools provide custom instrumentation for greater flexibility.
The LLM Evaluation Landscape with Frameworks
Evaluating LLMs requires tools that assess multi-turn reasoning, production performance, and tool usage. We spent 2 days reviewing popular LLM evaluation frameworks that provide structured metrics, logs, and traces to identify how and when a model deviates from expected behavior.
6 Real-life RBAC Examples in 2026
Nearly two-thirds of companies have 1,000 or more high-value files accessible to each employee. Role-based access control (RBAC) systems help organizations: Here are 6 real examples of RBAC implementations their challenges, solutions, and results. Real-life RBAC Examples 1. Dresdner Bank Major European bank with 368 different job functions and 1,300 roles.
8 AI Code Models Benchmarked: LMC-Eval
More than 37% of tasks performed on AI models are about computer programming and maths.
OCR Benchmark: Text Extraction / Capture Accuracy
OCR accuracy is critical for many document processing tasks, and SOTA multi-modal LLMs are now offering an alternative to OCR.
Top 25 Generative AI Finance Use Cases in 2026
I spent a decade consulting for financial services firms. Every AI implementation I saw followed the same pattern: pilot projects that looked impressive in presentations but stalled in production. That’s changing. Banks are now deploying generative AI at scale, and the results are measurable. Here’s what’s actually working, based on implementations you can verify.
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