{"id":925212,"date":"2025-04-25T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=925212"},"modified":"2025-04-25T08:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:46:34","slug":"indian-american-teams-up-with-expelled-columbia-university-student-to-build-a-5-3m-ai-startup-to-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/25\/indian-american-teams-up-with-expelled-columbia-university-student-to-build-a-5-3m-ai-startup-to-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian American teams up with expelled Columbia University student to build a $5.3M AI startup to \u2018cheat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What began as a suspension from an Ivy League school has turned into a multi-million-dollar startup for 21-year-old Chungin \u201cRoy\u201d Lee, a former computer science student at Columbia University. Lee has raised $5.3 million (approximately Rs 44.3 crore) in seed funding for his new venture, Cluely\u2014a platform designed to quietly assist users during interviews, exams, and other high-pressure scenarios using AI.                                                                                                                                                                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What began as a suspension from an Ivy League school has turned into a multi-million-dollar startup for 21-year-old Chungin \u201cRoy\u201d Lee, a former computer science student at Columbia University. Lee has raised $5.3 million (approximately Rs 44.3 crore) in seed funding for his new venture, Cluely\u2014a platform designed to quietly assist users during interviews, exams, and other high-pressure scenarios using AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}