Inside the Collapse of Microsoft-Backed Tech Unicorn Builder.ai

Administrators lined up for UK arm of Microsoft-backed Builder.ai

The UK arm of the app-building tech company, which had drawn investment from a Qatari sovereign wealth fund, is lining up Alvarez & Marsal as administrator, Sky News understands.

Microsoft-backed AI startup chatbots revealed to be human employees

A startup faked AI-powered app building with 700 hidden engineers, an example of the tech industry's AI-washing crisis.

Imitative AI Business Fraud And What It Means For Programming

As you have probably heard, an imitative AI firm named Builder.AI that purported to use imitative AI to build your programs for you has collapsed. It turns out that the imitative AI doing the ...

Turns Out 'Revolutionary' AI Was Powered By 700 Developers

Dude, I TOLD you AI was vaporware! Via Business Today: Builder.ai, once touted as a revolutionary AI startup backed by Microsoft, has collapsed into insolvency after revelations that its flagship no-code development platform was powered not by artificial intelligence—but by 700 human engineers in India. The company marketed its platform as being driven by an AI assistant named “Natasha,” which could supposedly assemble software applications like…

How Microsoft-backed Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5B, collapsed

The tech world is reeling after a report found that a once-celebrated startup backed by tech giant Microsoft relied on nearly 700 human workers in India,...

Behind bankruptcy plea of London start-up: It hired 700 Indian engineers to pose as AI tools

A major AI scandal has shaken the tech world as Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion, has filed for bankruptcy. The company, backed by Microsoft and a Qatari sovereign fund, falsely claimed to build apps in minutes using AI, while actually relying on hundreds of human engineers in India.