On Sunday the 21-year-old Chungin “Roy” Lee Lee announced He has collected 5.3 million US dollars of seed financing of abstract ventures and Susa Ventures for his startup Cluely, which offers a AI tool to “cheat all the pieces”.
The startup was born after Lee posted In a viral X-Thread that he was suspended by Columbia University after he and his co-founder developed a tool to cheat on interviews for software engineers.
This tool, which was originally called interview code, is now a part of his startup in San Francisco Clue. It offers its users the chance to “cheat” because of a hidden in-browser window that can not be viewed by the interviewer or testorer via exams, sales calls and interviews.
Cluely has published manifest Compare with inventions resembling the calculator and the spelling examination, which were originally ridiculed as “fraud”.
Cluely also published an elegant produced but polarizing video by Lee with a hidden AI assistant to (unsuccessfully) present a lady about his age and even his art knowledge on a date in an elegant restaurant:
While some praised The video to draw people's attention mocked it as a memory of the dystopian science fiction television show “Black Mirror”:
Lee, who’s CEO of Cluely, told Techcrunch that the Ki -Frauds tool exceeded 3 million US dollars originally of this month.
The other co-founder of the startup is one other 21-year-old former Columbia student, Neel Shanmugam, who’s Cluely Coo. Shanmugam was also involved in disciplinary proceedings in Columbia via the AI tool. Both co -founders have broken off from Columbia, the university student newspaper, reported Last week. Columbia rejected an announcement and cited the information protection laws of the scholars.
Cluely began a platform as an instrument for developers to cheat on the knowledge of Leetcode to coded questions that some in software engineering circles -including the founding father of Cluely, consider it as outdated and waste of time.
Lee says he was capable of snap an internship on Amazon with the AI fraud tool. Amazon rejected it to comment on Techcrunch to Lee, but said that his applicants had to acknowledge candidates that they might not use unauthorized tools through the interview process.
Cluely is just not the one controversial AI startup that began this month. Previously, a famous AI researcher announced his own startup with the declared mission to exchange all human employees anywhere, and caused his own brouhaha on X.
