A record of dead AI products.
The shutdowns, the acqui-hires that ended in silence, the products that promised the future and could not survive the present.
DALL-E 2
OpenAI's second-generation text-to-image model that opened consumer AI image generation to a mass audience.
OpenAI Sora (v1)
OpenAI's standalone text-to-video app and web product, killed less than five months after its public launch.
Rewind
A Mac app that recorded and indexed everything on a user's screen and microphone so they could search their past with natural language.
Microsoft QnA Maker
An Azure service that turned FAQ pages and documents into a question-answering bot.
Microsoft Language Understanding (LUIS)
An Azure cloud service for adding natural language intent recognition to bots and apps.
Dot (New Computer)
A personalized AI companion app pitched as an assistant that grows with you and keeps a living diary.
Tome
An AI presentation tool that let users generate full decks from a prompt and grew to millions of users at its peak.
Humane AI Pin
A screenless wearable AI assistant that clipped to your shirt.
Magic Leap One
A $2,295 mixed-reality headset that used computer-vision AI to anchor virtual objects in physical rooms.
Moxie (Embodied)
An $800 cloud-connected social robot designed to teach social and emotional skills to children.
Bench
An online bookkeeping service that pitched itself as AI-augmented bookkeeping for small businesses.
Forward
AI-powered primary care, delivered through standalone kiosks.
Amazon Astro for Business
A roving security-guard version of Amazon's Astro home robot, sold to small businesses.
GameOn
A sports-focused AI chatbot platform that powered fan conversations for the NBA, Arsenal, and the Las Vegas Raiders.
Adept AI
An agent startup training large models to operate existing software and APIs on behalf of knowledge workers.
GitHub Copilot Voice ("Hey, GitHub")
A voice-controlled coding assistant that let developers dictate code and editor commands to Copilot.
Ghost Autonomy
Aftermarket self-driving software for consumer cars.
Forefront Chat
A free consumer chat app that gave users access to GPT-4, Claude, and persona-based AI characters in one interface.
TuSimple (US)
An autonomous trucking company that ran some of the first driverless freight runs in the US before retreating to Asia.
Olive AI
Robotic process automation for hospital back offices.
Babylon Health
AI-driven symptom checker and virtual primary care service that contracted with the NHS and US insurers.
Microsoft Cortana
Microsoft's voice assistant for Windows, phones, and smart speakers, retired in favor of Copilot.
Neeva
An ad-free, subscription-based AI search engine pitched as a privacy-respecting Google alternative.
Pear Therapeutics
A prescription digital therapeutics company making FDA-cleared software apps for substance use disorder and insomnia.
Mindstrong Health
A mental health platform that read smartphone typing and scrolling patterns as digital biomarkers of cognitive state.
Embark Trucks
An autonomous trucking startup building a self-driving software platform for long-haul Class 8 freight.
Google Stadia
Google's cloud gaming platform, marketed around machine-learning features for streaming and game development.
Galactica
Meta's large language model for science, trained on 48 million papers, textbooks, and encyclopedias that could summarize research, generate equations, and annotate molecules.
Kite
A Python-focused AI code completion plugin that predated GitHub Copilot by years.
Mighty
A cloud-streamed Chromium browser that ran Chrome on remote servers to free up local laptop resources.
Argo AI
Autonomous vehicle software, backed by Ford and Volkswagen.
Amazon Glow
A $300 video-calling device for children that projected interactive games and puzzles onto a table.
Sonantic
A London voice-AI startup that synthesized emotional, human-sounding speech for games and film.
Vicarious
A long-horizon AI research startup building brain-inspired models for industrial robotics and visual reasoning.
IBM Watson Health
IBM's flagship healthcare AI division that promised to use Watson to diagnose disease, match cancer treatments, and run hospital analytics.
Optimus Ride
An MIT spinout building low-speed autonomous electric shuttles for geofenced communities and campuses.
x.ai (Amy and Andrew)
AI scheduling assistants Amy and Andrew Ingram that handled meeting coordination over email, one of the first widely deployed autonomous agent products. Not the Elon Musk xAI.
Voyage Auto
An autonomous taxi startup that operated low-speed self-driving cars inside private retirement communities.
Element AI
A Montreal-based enterprise AI services company building custom machine learning solutions for large companies.
Starsky Robotics
A self-driving truck startup that paired highway autonomy with remote human teleoperation for the first and last miles.
Atrium
A law firm and software company that promised to automate startup legal work with machine learning.
Google Clips
A clip-on camera that used on-device machine learning to decide on its own when to take a picture.
Lyrebird
A Montreal voice-cloning startup that recreated a speaker's voice from a one-minute sample.
Microsoft Zo
Microsoft's English-language successor to the Tay chatbot, designed for casual conversation on messaging platforms.
Drive.ai
A self-driving car startup spun out of Stanford's AI Lab, known for retrofitted vans running geofenced shuttle pilots in Texas.
Anki
A consumer robotics company behind the Cozmo and Vector AI companion robots and the Anki Drive racing system, marketed as real robotics in toy form.
Google Allo
A messaging app built around Smart Reply suggestions and the first consumer outing of Google Assistant.
Jibo
The self-described first social robot for the home, a swiveling tabletop companion that recognized faces, held conversations, and told stories.
Lighthouse AI
A smart home security camera with 3D sensing and computer vision that could recognize specific family members, pets, and strangers and respond to natural language queries.
Otto
A self-driving truck startup that made the first commercial autonomous freight delivery before being absorbed and shut by Uber.
Yahoo Aviate
An Android launcher that rearranged your home screen by time of day, location, and what you were doing.
Microsoft Tay
Microsoft's Twitter chatbot designed to mimic an American teenage girl and learn through conversation with users.
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