The Brief
- Two Columbia University drop-outs have raised $5.3M for their company, Cluely.
- The new company’s headquarters is in San Francisco.
- Cluely is a desktop application that uses AI to help users “cheat on everything.”
SAN FRANCISCO – Two 21-year-old Columbia University drop-outs have set up shop in San Francisco to launch a highly controversial tech-startup, with a stated slogan to use its artificial intelligence application to “cheat on everything.”
The company is called Cluely. At the end of April, its founders, Chungin Roy Lee and Neel Shanmugam, moved across the country from New York to open their new headquarters in a three-story live-work loft in the city’s Mission District, just south of the SoMa neighborhood.
What they’ve developed in Cluely is a desktop application that aims to use AI to “redefine how the world works” and redefine what it means to cheat.
How it works
Lee, the company’s CEO, said people are using Cluely to get instantaneous information and ultimately the upper hand in areas like job interviews, sales calls, and work meetings.…