On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin 'Roy' Lee announced he's raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures for his startup, Cluely, that offers an AI tool to 'cheat on everything.' That tool, originally called Interview Coder, is now part of their San Francisco-based startup Cluely. It offers its users the chance to 'cheat' on things like exams, sales calls, and job interviews thanks to a hidden in-browser window that can't be viewed by the interviewer or test giver. Cluely also published a slickly produced, but polarizing, launch video of Lee using a hidden AI assistant to (unsuccessfully) lie to a woman about his age, and even his knowledge of art, on a date at a fancy restaurant: The startup's other co-founder is another 21-year-old former Columbia student, Neel Shanmugam, who is Cluely's COO. Shanmugam was also embroiled in disciplinary proceedings at Columbia over the AI tool. Both co-founders have dropped out of Columbia, the university's student...
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