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Bankrupt Microsoft-Backed 'AI' Company Was Using Indian Engineers To Fake It: Report

So much for Nadella claiming that 30% of code is written by AI.

London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its "AI-powered" app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence.

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I wonder when MS caught on.

They caught on when the code quality matched theirs.

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Post ID: @1a9+1jwsdzz9d

Nadella, you funny!!

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Post ID: @hj+1jwsdzz9d

"Microsoft's $455 million investment in 2023, including plans to integrate Builder.ai's technology with Azure, now stands as a cautionary tale."

Just wow.

I wonder when MS caught on.

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Post ID: @er+1jwsdzz9d

You're not kidding; just look around the Redmond campus.

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Post ID: @dv+1jwsdzz9d

Nadella: “It’s the new AI (All in.dians) strategy…”

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