📈AI Graveyard: 13 Projects Killed by Bigger Platforms
TL;DR
TechCrunch is keeping a running list of AI products that died, from Humane's $230M wearable to OpenAI's Sora app. The pattern is blunt: platforms absorb the feature, and your standalone app has no reason to exist.
TechCrunch is keeping a running list of AI products that died, from Humane's $230M wearable to OpenAI's Sora app. The pattern is blunt: platforms absorb the feature, and your standalone app has no reason to exist.
Key Points
Humane raised $230M and sold assets to HP for $116M
Relay shut down in August 2026 after OpenAI and Google built similar automation
ChatGPT Atlas was discontinued August 9, under a year after launch
Notion Mail is set to close September 22
S&P Global Market Intelligence says about 42% of AI initiatives get abandoned by their corporate parents
Why It Matters
If your product is one feature of ChatGPT or Gemini, assume it gets absorbed. Free compute-heavy products die even with a million users.
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