On Sunday, the 21-year-old Chungin ‘Roy’ Lee announced He raised $ 5.3 million on seed financing from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures for his start, Cluely, who offers an AI instrument to “cheat everything”.
The boot was born to Lee posted In a viral X-thread, he was suspended by the University of Columbia after he and his co-founder developed an instrument to cheat work interviews for software engineers.
That tool, originally called maintenance codes, is now part of their San Francisco-based boot Slit. It offers users the chance to ‘cheat’ things like exams, sales calls and job interviews thanks to a hidden window in the browser that cannot be seen by the interviewer or tester.
Cluely has published a manifesto Compare himself to inventions such as the calculator and the spelling test that was originally as ‘fraud’.
Cluely also published a smooth-produced but polarizing, launch video of Lee using a hidden AI assistant to (unsuccessfully) lie to a woman about his age, and even knowledge of art, on a date in a fancy restaurant:
While some praised The video to attract people’s attention reminded it of the Dystopian Sci-Fi Television program Black Mirror:
Lee, who is CEO of Cluely, told TechCrunch that the AI scam exceeded $ 3 million in ARR earlier this month.
Cluely’s other co-founder is another 21-year-old former Columbia student, Neel Shanmugan, who is Cluie’s COO. Shanmugan was also embraced in disciplinary proceedings at Columbia on the AI instrument. Both co-founders fell from Columbia, the student newspaper of the university report Last week. Columbia refused to comment, referring to students’ privacy laws.
Cluely has begun as a tool for developers to cheat on Leetcode, a platform for coding questions that some in software engineering – including Cluely’s founders, of course – outdated and a waste of time.
Lee says he was able to use a stage at Amazon using the AI blast instrument. Amazon declined to comment on Lee’s specific case to TechCrunch, but said his work candidates should admit that they would not use unauthorized instruments during the interview process.
Cluely is not the only controversial AI start -up this month. Earlier, a famous AI researcher began to announce his own with the declared mission to replace all human workers everywhere, causing their own brewhaha on X.
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