{"id":936369,"date":"2025-06-04T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=936369"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:23:35","slug":"how-this-microsoft-backed-billion-dollar-london-startup-made-700-engineers-sitting-in-india-pose-as-ai-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/04\/how-this-microsoft-backed-billion-dollar-london-startup-made-700-engineers-sitting-in-india-pose-as-ai-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"How this Microsoft-backed billion-dollar London startup made 700 engineers sitting in India pose as AI tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its &#8220;AI-powered&#8221; app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The startup, which raised over $445 million from investors including Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority, promised to make software development &#8220;as easy as ordering pizza&#8221; through its AI assistant &#8220;Natasha.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its &#8220;AI-powered&#8221; app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence. The startup, which raised over $445 million from investors including Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority, promised to make software development &#8220;as easy as ordering pizza&#8221; through its AI assistant &#8220;Natasha.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936369","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}