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Microsoft-Backed AI Startup “Builder.ai” Worth $1.5 Billion Collapses Amid Revelations of Indian Engineers Behind AI Responses

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June 2, 2025
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Alright, here goes nothing. So, imagine AI is speeding like a bullet train or something, right? But hey, alarms are going off with people yelling, “Watch out! Don’t just hop on without thinking!” Builder.ai kinda became a poster child for this mess.

You know those eye-popping stories about AI making big bucks? Like, NVIDIA turning into this $3 trillion beast. Insane, right? And then you’ve got these folks who somehow charm venture capitalists by tossing around phrases like “AI this” and “AI that.” Builder.ai? Yep, totally tangled up in this web. They pitched this idea of apps being whipped up by an AI named Natasha. Or so they said. Turns out, it wasn’t some magic coding robot—it was actually 700 real people in India doing the heavy lifting. Talk about a plot twist!

So, yeah, Builder.ai’s marketing spun this wild yarn about Natasha handling app development like it was just buttons on a screen. Microsoft even threw $445 million into the mix thinking it was genius. Spoiler: it kinda flopped. The company hit a $1.5 billion value mark, painted as some cutting-edge unicorn. Fancy term, eh?

Visuals told this tale of “AI transforming voices into code,” but meanwhile, back at the ranch—or rather, in Indian offices—actual humans were drafting those codes. Natasha’s grand show was, in reality, a smokescreen for good old-fashioned manpower tweaking stuff under the hood. They sugarcoated AI like it was some groundbreaking Cinderella story, but nah, there were actual peeps making the magic happen.

Now, surprise, surprise—Builder.ai’s in hot water with the Big Guys in the US and UK. Bankruptcy’s knocking at the door, too. What a ride, man. This saga doesn’t scream “AI’s a joke,” but maybe think twice before chasing every shiny AI claim out there. Natasha snagged all this backing, Microsoft included, but totally missed the mark. Lesson learned? Maybe trust your gut over the next big hype. Or don’t. Who knows.

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