GPTZero founders
GPTZero CEO Edward Tian and CTO Alex Cui.
  • Edward Tian first built GPTZero as his senior thesis project at Princeton during his winter break.
  • Since then, he's turned it into a full-fledged startup that's raised $3.5 million in VC funding.
  • He's expanded the company's mission from anti-cheating detection to verifying "humanity" online. 

Last year, Edward Tian was looking for an exciting new project to cap off his senior thesis in machine learning at Princeton University.

The then 22-year old computer science major wanted to create a tool that combined his interest in AI and his minor in journalism.