On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin “Roy” Lee announced He collected $ 5.3 million of seed funds from the summary of Ventures and Susa Ventures at its startup, which offers the AI tool for “cheating everything”.
The startup was born after Lee Published In the viral thread X he was suspended by Columbia University after he and his co -founder developed a tool for cheating interviews for software engineers.
This tool, originally called an intelligence coder, is now a part of their startup based in San Francisco Curely. He offers its users a probability to “cheat” things comparable to exams, sales conversations and interviews thanks to the hidden browser window, whose interviewer or test donor cannot view.
Clula published obvious Comparing with inventions comparable to a calculator and pattern of spells, which were originally ridiculed as a “fraud”.
CLuly also published angrily produced, but polarizing, run the video Lee using a hidden AI assistant to (unsuccessfully) lie a woman about her age, and even his knowledge of art, on a date in a fancy restaurant:
While some Praised A movie that pulls the attention of individuals, others laughed at it as paying homage to the science fiction television program “Black Mirror”:
Lee, who is the general director of Clude, told Techcrunch tool fraud and exceeded $ 3 million in ARR at the starting of this month.
The second co-founder of the startup is one other 21-year-old former Colombia student, Neel Shanmugam, who is the operational director of Cluly. Shanmugam was also involved in disciplinary proceedings in Colombia over the AI tool. Both co -founders abandoned from Colombia, a student university newspaper Reported last week. Colombia refused to comment, citing students regarding the privacy of scholars.
CLUEY began as a tool for programmers to cheat knowledge about Leetcode, a platform for coding questions that some in software engineering circles – including the founders of Cluely, after all – consider it outdated and a waste of time.
Lee says he was able to catch an internship in Amazon using the AI cheating tool. Amazon refused to comment on the special case of Lee to TechCrunch, but said that his work candidates must recognize that they’d not use unauthorized tools during the interview process.
Clude is not the only controversial startup of AI launched this month. Earlier, the famous AI researcher announced his own startup with the given mission of replacing all people around the world, causing his own Broouhaha on X.