{"id":933474,"date":"2025-05-24T07:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T02:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933474"},"modified":"2025-05-24T07:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T02:19:24","slug":"why-did-microsoft-backed-1-3bn-builder-ai-collapse-accused-of-using-indian-coders-for-ai-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/24\/why-did-microsoft-backed-1-3bn-builder-ai-collapse-accused-of-using-indian-coders-for-ai-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Microsoft-backed $1.3bn Builder.ai collapse? Accused of using Indian coders for \u2018 AI \u2019 work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the golden age of AI-powered storytelling, Builder.ai had a pitch too good to ignore: make software \u201cas easy as ordering pizza.\u201d The startup, founded in 2016, claimed it could democratise software development by letting non-engineers build complex apps through a supposedly AI-driven platform. Over the next eight years, it raised over $445 million, counted Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority as investors, and crossed the $1.3 billion valuation mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the golden age of AI-powered storytelling, Builder.ai had a pitch too good to ignore: make software \u201cas easy as ordering pizza.\u201d The startup, founded in 2016, claimed it could democratise software development by letting non-engineers build complex apps through a supposedly AI-driven platform. Over the next eight years, it raised over $445 million, counted Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority as investors, and crossed the $1.3 billion valuation mark.<\/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-933474","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\/933474","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=933474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}