Secured an Offer from Amazon with It.
Author: Bai Jiao
Developing a cheating AI tool, although suspended by Columbia University, has garnered $5.3 million in funding!
A 21-year-old guy (let's call him Xiao Li) announced the good news that they cleverly secured seed funding from institutions Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures a few days ago.
What they mainly do is provide an AI tool that can deceive everything.
Just like they posted a demonstration:
Xiao Li used an AI assistant to help him converse with women on dates, and for each woman, the AI would promptly give suggestions based on her responses.
Netizens commented: What a "Black Mirror" vibe.
Of course, such a development concept immediately sparked some controversy: Have you considered its subsequent impact?
Shortly after developing this tool, Columbia University officially issued them a disciplinary action. Now their founder has dropped out of Columbia and officially started a business.
Columbia University Students Develop "Everything for Cheating" Tool
This tool was initially named Interview Coder, which provides users with opportunities to "cheat" in exams, sales calls, and interviews through a hidden browser window (which interviewers or questioners cannot see).
Earlier this month, the ARR of this AI tool has already exceeded $3 million.
The tool was originally intended for developers to cheat on LeetCode. The Chinese guy mentioned that he successfully secured an internship opportunity at Amazon using this tool. At that time, he even posted a video, which quickly went viral, but was later deleted due to Amazon's copyright claim.
According to his description, he ultimately received job offers from Amazon, Meta, TikTok, and Capital One.
Over the past two years, Xiao Li has spent 600 hours practicing, ranking in the top 2% among global Leetcoder competitors.
He mentioned that LeetCode interview questions are basically "useless, poorly standardized, irrelevant, and just waste most developers' time."
Based on this pain point, he decided to develop such a cheating tool.
Currently, the company founders are Xiao Li, Chungin Lee, and his classmate Neel Shanmugam.
Xiao Li serves as the CEO, while Neel Shanmugam currently serves as the COO of Cluely.
Before this, they were disciplined by the school for developing this tool and underwent several weeks of interview interventions. Then Xiao Li was suspended for a year.
They ultimately decided to drop out.
Ironically, Xiao Li wrote on LinkedIn that he was expelled from Columbia for being "too handsome + too popular."
Young people indeed!
Another Thing
The most controversial company is not just this one.
Mechanize, whose Tamay Besiroglu was involved in the album Epoch AI and worked full-time as a research scientist at MIT, stated that the goal of this founding company is "to achieve complete automation of all work" and "complete automation of the economy."
This means they are working to replace all human employees with AI proxy robots?! Although they are still actively hiring employees.
As a result, they faced skepticism from netizens.
What do you think about these controversial companies?
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