Tamay Besiroglu is Co-Founder and CEO of Mechanize, a San Francisco-based AI startup building virtual work environments, benchmarks, and training data to enable the full automation of the economy.

Tamay earned an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge and served as a Research Scientist at MIT, where his work focused on the economics of computing and broader trends in machine learning.

Tamay co-founded Epoch AI in 2022, one of the most trusted AI research and governance institutions, and previously held roles at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford and Metaculus.

At Mechanize, Tamay leads a founding team of former Epoch AI researchers with a bold mission to automate all work, initially targeting white-collar and software engineering roles using AI agents trained in simulated environments.

Just 103 days after raising a $9.1M seed round at a $500M valuation, Mechanize attracted acquisition interest from Google in a proposed $1.5B deal for its technology and engineering team.