Chungin “Roy” Lee, a 21-year-old former Columbia student, raised $5.3 million for his startup Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat” on exams, sales calls, and job interviews. The tool, originally called Interview Coder, was developed by Lee and his co-founder, Neel Shanmugam, and led to their suspension from Columbia. Cluely’s manifesto compares the tool to inventions like the calculator and spellcheck, while a launch video featuring Lee using the AI assistant on a date sparked both praise and criticism.

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