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This AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinator (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 months ago by RobotToaster@mander.xyz to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] Metz@lemmy.world 124 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I just quit my 270 000$ job at Coinbase to join the first YCombinator fall batch with my cofounder @not_nang. We're building PearAI, an open source AI code editor.

Of course it is a cryptobro...

dawgt i chatgpt'd the license, anyone is free to use our app for free for whatever they want. if there's a problem with the license just lmk i'll change it. we busy building rn can't be bothered with legal

Yep, already hate that guy. Talks and behaves like an absolute dipshit.

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I read your comment before the article and I thought you had made the second quote up lol, unbelievable. And people are throwing money at these guys?