Ahmet Karakas is the Founder and CEO of HyperbeeAI, a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI company building high-IQ, small-footprint large language models for on-premises deployment. He is a PhD-holder and recognized member of the Global Turks AI community, representing the intersection of deep technical expertise and entrepreneurial execution.

Ahmet brings a rich career spanning iconic technology companies including Shazam, Nintendo, and PortalPlayer, the chip company powering the original Apple iPod, as well as co-founding Gauda Inc. and advising introduce.social. His diverse experience across consumer tech, hardware, and software laid the groundwork for his venture into enterprise AI.

Driven by the conviction that AI's greatest potential lies in efficiency rather than scale, Ahmet pursues the development of shallow neural networks and quantized models that deliver high accuracy without massive compute overhead. His research-driven philosophy positions HyperbeeAI as a differentiated player in a crowded LLM market.

HyperbeeAI has raised $4.3M in Seed funding from investors including Revo Capital, ScaleX Ventures, and Artificial Intelligence Factory, and operates with a team of 11 to 50 employees. The company's flagship products include HyperRAG, an agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation platform, and AId, a conversational enterprise data interface.

HyperbeeAI's Tulpar-7B LLM secured the number one position among 7B parameter models on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard on its first submission, validating the company's high-IQ model approach. The platform serves enterprise clients with on-premises AI solutions that prioritize data privacy, low total cost of ownership, and best-in-class accuracy.