The AI Tool Graveyard

Cohere's non-profit research lab focused on open science and multilingual NLP.

Cohere For AI was folded back into Cohere's main R&D division in 2025 as the company focused resources on its commercial enterprise products.

AI-powered note-taking and knowledge management tool that automatically organized information.

Mem.ai shut down its consumer product in late 2024 after failing to reach sustainable growth despite $29M in funding. The team pivoted to enterprise solutions before going quiet.

Platform for creating and chatting with AI characters, founded by former Google Brain researchers.

Google acquired Character.AI's founding team and IP in August 2024 for ~$2.7B. The consumer product continues under a licensing agreement but the core team now works at Google DeepMind.

AI-powered presentation and storytelling tool that auto-generated slide decks from prompts.

Tome pivoted away from AI slide generation in 2024, repositioning as a 'go-to-market enablement' platform. The original AI deck creation feature was significantly scaled back.

AI agent startup building ACT-1, a model that could use software tools like a human.

Amazon hired Adept's co-founders and key staff in June 2024, acquiring a non-exclusive license to the technology. The independent company effectively ceased operations.

AI image generation tool by Jasper, offered as part of the Jasper marketing suite.

Jasper discontinued its standalone Art product in 2024, folding remaining image capabilities into the core Jasper platform. Users were migrated to the main product.

Botsonic, Writesonic's custom ChatGPT-like chatbot builder for websites.

Writesonic merged Botsonic into the main Writesonic platform in 2024. The standalone Botsonic branding was retired and features were integrated into Writesonic's unified product.

Originally a separate $10/month add-on for Notion workspaces.

Notion bundled AI features into all paid plans in 2024, eliminating the separate AI add-on pricing. The feature still exists but is no longer a standalone product.

The company behind Stable Diffusion, one of the most widely-used open-source image generation models.

After CEO Emad Mostaque resigned in March 2024 amid financial difficulties, Stability AI restructured significantly. The company pivoted from consumer products to enterprise and B2B licensing.

Personal AI assistant 'Pi' known for its empathetic, conversational style.

Microsoft hired most of Inflection's team including CEO Mustafa Suleyman in March 2024, paying $650M in licensing fees. Pi continues but development has largely stalled.

Google's experimental conversational AI chatbot, launched as a competitor to ChatGPT.

Google rebranded Bard to Gemini in February 2024, integrating it with the Gemini model family. Bard.google.com redirects to gemini.google.com.

AI-powered personalized news app by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.

Artifact shut down in January 2024 after less than a year. The founders cited insufficient market size for a standalone news reader, despite positive user feedback and AI technology.

Microsoft's AI-powered chat experience integrated into Bing search.

Rebranded to Microsoft Copilot in November 2023. The standalone Bing Chat identity was retired in favor of the unified Copilot brand across Microsoft products.

AI companion chatbot's romantic/intimate features in European markets.

Italian data protection authorities banned Replika's intimate features in 2023, and the company removed them across the EU. The pro romantic companion features were permanently disabled in European markets.

AI-powered code completion tool that was one of the first AI coding assistants, predating GitHub Copilot.

Kite shut down in December 2022 after failing to find a sustainable business model. The team open-sourced their code completion model before closing. GitHub Copilot's dominance made standalone code completion tools unviable.