About Konic
Production-optimized LLMs on infrastructure you own.
Konic Labs builds compact, production-optimized LLM families for enterprises that need AI inside their own security boundary. Instead of per-token pricing on models sized for every possible task, we engineer models for the workload you actually run — pruning, distillation, and quantization targeted at your production hardware — and license them annually on machines you control.
Why Konic exists.
Enterprises rarely stall because a model is not good enough. They stall on what it costs and takes to run in production. API dependency means cost scaling with usage and data leaving the business. Raw open weights mean the buyer owns the compression, post-training, and serving engineering.
Konic removes that middle layer. Model families are engineered for the workload the buyer actually runs — sized for the task, not the benchmark — delivered as versioned releases, and licensed annually on the customer's own machines: no per-token cost, no usage-scaling bill, no data egress.
Every claim is backed by published engineering with reproducible results. Read the research or see how we build.
Published results
- performance retained after optimization
- ~91%
- smaller model for the same task
- 4x
- memory reduction in published work
- 6.1x
- founders, pre-seed, NVIDIA Inception
- 2
Team
Two founders, one compression pipeline.
Co-founder, CEO
Gokalp Katkat
Gokalp leads Konic as CEO — commercial terms, partnerships, and enterprise deployments — and works across the model compression pipeline: domain adaptation, pruning and distillation, and the INT4 artifacts that ship for on-prem serving.
[email protected]Co-founder
Ege Sabanci
Ege works across the model compression pipeline — domain adaptation, pruning and distillation, and the INT4 artifacts that ship for on-prem serving — and maintains the open-source tooling behind Konic research, including REAP-MLX, REAP CUDA and the from-scratch AWQ implementation.
Company facts.
Konic is an NVIDIA Inception Program member.
- Legal name
- Konic Labs, Inc.
- Headquarters
- Istanbul, TR
- Focus
- On-prem LLM deployment · Enterprise LLM · LLM compression · Model quantization · Custom LLM development · Sovereign AI
- Contact
- [email protected]
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