Tamay Besiroglu is an AI researcher who co-founded Mechanize, Inc. to build virtual work environments and training data aimed at enabling full economic automation. Tamay Besiroglu's Twitter Score is 45 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #20,377 (top 5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Tamay Besiroglu co-founded Epoch AI and serves as CEO of Mechanize, which was announced in April 2025 and raised $9.1 million at a $500 million post-money valuation. Previously, Tamay Besiroglu worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Research Scientist and formerly held a Strategy and Operations Lead role at Metaculus.
Tamay Besiroglu has contributed substantive research on AI and economic growth, co-authoring a 2023 review examining whether broad AI automation could produce explosive economic expansion, and co-authoring GATE, an integrated assessment model published in 2025 for simulating the macroeconomic effects of AI automation. Tamay Besiroglu's account has published 2,237 posts and has been mentioned by 10 accounts a total of 17 times, with 12,607 followers as of September 2026 on the platform.
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