21-year-old student develops AI cheating tool, suspended by Columbia University, and transferred to secure $5.3 million in funding.

Author: Bai Jiao

Developing a cheating AI tool, although suspended by Columbia University, has still garnered $5.3 million in funding!

A 21-year-old young man (let's call him Xiao Li) has announced some good news; a few days ago, he cleverly secured seed funding from the institutions Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures.

The main thing we do is provide an AI tool that can deceive everything.

Just like they posted a demo:

Xiao Li used an AI assistant to help him converse with the ladies during dates, and the AI would promptly provide suggestions based on each lady's responses.

Netizens said: What a sense of déjà vu from "Black Mirror."

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.

University students develop a "Cheating for Everything" tool

This tool was originally called Interview Coder, and it provides users with opportunities to "cheat" in exams, sales calls, and interviews through a hidden browser window (which the interviewer or questioner cannot see).

At the beginning of this month, the ARR of this AI tool has exceeded 3 million dollars.

The donation of this tool is originally aimed at scenarios for developers, allowing them to cheat on LeetCode. A Chinese guy stated that he successfully secured an internship opportunity at Amazon using this tool. At that time, he also posted a video, which quickly went viral, but was then deleted due to Amazon's copyright notice.

According to his description, he eventually received job offers from Amazon, Meta, TikTok, and Capital One.

In the past two years, Xiao Li has spent 600 hours practicing, ranking in the top 2% among global Leetcoder competitors.

At that time, he mentioned Leetcode's interview questions, stating that they are basically "useless, poorly standardized, of low relevance, and just a waste of most developers' time."

Based on such pain points, we decided to develop such a cheating tool.

Currently, the founders of the company are them, brother Chungin Lee and his classmate Neel Shanmugam.

The younger brother serves as the CEO, while Neil Shanmugam currently serves as the COO of Cluely.

Before this, they were being disciplined by the school for developing this tool and had undergone several weeks of interview interventions. Then the guy was suspended for a year.

They ultimately decided to drop out.

What's funny is that Xiao Li wrote on LinkedIn, "because I'm too handsome + too popular," and got expelled from Columbia.

It has to be the young people!

There's one more thing.

The most debated companies are not just this one.

Mechanize, whose Tamay Besiroglu was involved in the album Epoch AI, previously worked as a research scientist at MIT. He stated that the goal of this founding company is to "achieve complete automation of all work" and "complete automation of the economy."

Does this mean they are working hard to replace all human employees with AI proxy robots?! Although they are still actively hiring employees now.

The result was questioned by netizens.

What do you think about these controversial companies?