Microsoft-Backed $1.5 Billion AI Startup “Builder.ai” Collapses After Revelation of Indian Engineers Behind AI Responses

AI is like going full throttle, faster than coffee kicking in, but gotta say, some folks out there waving red flags about just riding the hype without a helmet. Case in point—Builder.ai. You might’ve heard of ’em.

Picture this: AI as this gigantic, money-sucking whirlpool. Companies like NVIDIA? Yeah, they’re surfing it to hit, like, $3 trillion. Crazy, right? But then, there’re those sly foxes foolin’ investors with a sprinkle of AI magic. Take Builder.ai, dishing out “automated app creation”—but wait till you hear the plot twist.

So, there’s this tweet, something about a neural network named Natasha, which turned out, oops, to be a crowd of 700 Indian coders. Yeah, the drama unfolds. BuilderAI promised apps as easy as pie, pitching it with AI razzle-dazzle. They even got Microsoft to toss in $445 million, hoping for some robogenius to kill the human coder gig. But reality check—it was humans all along!

They claimed their AI Natasha could whip up custom apps faster than a pizza delivery. This buzz got ’em a sweet $1.5 billion status. But behind the shiny AI curtain? Just engineers tweaking preset templates—turns out Natasha’s brains were really just folks clocking hours in India.

But yeah, it didn’t stay under wraps. Builder.ai is under the spotlight now, with the US and UK authorities poking around. Oh, and they hit bankruptcy—yikes. So, what’s the takeaway? AI ain’t all smoke and mirrors, but hopping on that hype train without brakes? Well, it might get you more than you bargained for. Microsoft’s faith and those big promises? Not enough magic to make the AI trick work.

Kinda makes you wonder, right?