Ege Erdil is Co-Founder and CTO at Mechanize, a groundbreaking AI startup dedicated to fully automating the economy through virtual work environments, benchmarks, and training data for AI agents.

Ege studied at Middle East Technical University and went on to become a researcher at Epoch AI, where he focused on AI forecasting, mathematics, statistics, economics, and machine learning.

Ege co-authored influential research including a review of explosive AI growth arguments and co-developed FrontierMath, a benchmark of exceptionally challenging mathematics problems vetted by expert mathematicians.

At Mechanize, Ege leads technical strategy, pioneering reinforcement learning environments that simulate real digital offices to train AI agents capable of handling any computer-based job, starting with software development.

Mechanize raised a $9.1M seed round at a $500M valuation from backers including Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and is now reportedly in $1.5B acquisition talks with Google.