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 enterprises can leverage new technologies in AI, agentic AI, cybersecurity (including network security, application security) and data including web data.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
- Answers to Korea24's questions on job loss due to AI, 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
Low/No-Code AI Agent Builders: n8n, AgentKit, make, Zapier
Low- and no-code AI agent builders let users create automated, AI-driven workflows without writing complex code, making agent development faster and accessible to non-technical teams.
Chatbot vs ChatGPT: Differences & Features
When people search for “chatbot vs ChatGPT,” they’re usually trying to figure out if ChatGPT is just another chatbot or something fundamentally different. The confusion makes sense. ChatGPT is technically a chatbot, but calling it one feels like calling a smartphone just a phone. Both descriptions are accurate, yet they miss important distinctions.
Best Database Performance Monitoring Tools: Top 5 Platforms Compared
Database issues cause application failures. A memory spike crashes your server. A slow query times out user requests. We analyzed six database monitoring platforms and benchmarked three of them extensively on MySQL and MongoDB. The results show significant differences in setup complexity, query analysis capabilities, and metric accuracy.
GPU Marketplace: Shadeform vs Prime Intellect vs Node AI
Finding available GPU capacity at reasonable prices has become a critical challenge for AI teams. While major cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud offer GPU instances, they’re often at capacity or expensive. GPU marketplace aggregators have emerged as an alternative, connecting users to dozens of providers through a single interface.
Text-to-Speech Software: Hume, ElevenLabs & Resemble
As AI capabilities evolve, text-to-speech (TTS) software is becoming more adept at producing natural, human-like speech. We evaluated and compared the performance of five different TTS and sentiment analysis tools (Resemble, ElevenLabs, Hume, Azure, and Cartasia) across seven core emotion categories to determine which could most accurately, consistently, and comprehensively recognize emotional tones.
RAG Frameworks: LangChain vs LangGraph vs LlamaIndex vs Haystack vs DSPy
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.
Roadmap to Web Scraping: Benchmark Results from 30M Requests
We crawled more than 30 million web pages using more than 50 products from 6 leading web data infrastructure companies. This massive undertaking enabled us to assess critical performance metrics, including success rates, latency, and stability at scale. Our goal was to determine which solutions truly handle the complexities of enterprise-level scraping.
Best 30+ Open Source Web Agents
We tested proprietary web agents, remote browsers, and benchmarked 8 MCP servers across web search and browser automation tasks. Below are 30+ open-source web agents that enable AI to navigate, interact with, and extract data from the web, including browsing, authentication, and crawling. Open-source web agents: Accuracy benchmark See benchmark sources.
AI Hallucination: Compare Popular LLMs
AI models sometimes generate data that seems plausible but is incorrect or misleading, known as AI hallucinations. 77% of businesses concerned about AI hallucinations. We benchmarked 37 different LLMs with 60 questions to measure their hallucination rates: AI hallucination benchmark results Our benchmark revealed that xAI Grok 4 has the lowest hallucination rate (i.e.
LLM Pricing: Top 15+ Providers Compared
LLM API pricing can be complex and depends on your preferred usage. We analyzed 15+ LLMs and their pricing and performance: Hover over model names to view their benchmark results, real-world latency, and pricing, to assess each model’s efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Ranking: Models are ranked by their average position across all benchmarks.
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