Sunday, Chungin “Roy” Lee, 21 years old announced He has raised $ 5.3 million in initial summary funds Ventures and Susa Ventures for his startup, clandy, which offers an AI tool to “deceive everything.”
The startup was born after Lee aware In a viral thread X, he was suspended by Columbia University after he and his co -founder developed a tool to cheat at work interviews for software engineers.
That tool, originally called Coder interview, is now part of its Startup based in San Francisco With all the same way. It offers its users the opportunity to “deceive” in things like exams, sales calls and work interviews thanks to a hidden window in the browser that the interviewer or the test giver cannot see.
Clollyly has published A manifesto Compared to inventions such as the calculator and the spelling concealer, which originally ridiculed as “trap”.
Clolly also posted a LEE spear video, but polarized, produced, but polarizing, using a hidden assistant to (without success) a woman about her age, and even her knowledge of art, in an appointment in an elegant restaurant:
While some praised The video to capture the attention of the people, others ridiculed it as a reminiscence of the science fiction television program “Black Mirror”:
Lee, who is Cluely’s CEO, told TechCrunch that the AI trap tool exceeded $ 3 million in Rard at the beginning of this month.
The other CLUELY co -founder is another 21 -year -old former Columbia student, Neel Shanmugan, who is the director of Operations of Clandy. Shanmugan was also involved in disciplinary procedures in Columbia on tool AI. Both co -founders have abandoned Columbia, the University newspaper of the University reported last week. Columbia declined to comment, citing the privacy laws of the students.
Clolly began as a tool for developers to deceive the knowledge of Leetcode, a platform to encode questions that some in software engineering circles, including the founders of Cluely, of course, consider outdated and a loss of time.
Lee says he was able to hook an Amazon internship using the AI trap tool. Amazon declined to comment on the particular case of Lee to TechCrunch, but said that his work candidates must recognize that they will not use unauthorized tools during the interview process.
Clolly is not the only Startup of the controversial launched this month. Previously, a famous AI researcher announced his own startup with the Declared mission of replacing all human workers everywherecausing your own Brouha in X.