The AI Cemetery
Where overhyped AI goes to rest
15 AI projects buried and counting
Builder.ai
The AI was 700 engineers in India all along
Humane AI Pin
A $700 lapel pin that couldn't beat a free phone app
Metaverse AI Assistants
Built AI friends for a virtual world that nobody visited
Character.AI
Google paid $2.7B to get their own employees back
Adept AI
Amazon bought the team when the model couldn't ship
The AI Wrapper Epidemic
Built $1B companies on rented intelligence, then the landlord came home
ChatGPT Plugins
The App Store for AI became a ghost town for AI
Inflection AI
Microsoft paid $650M to hire the employees, not buy the company
Google Bard
Rebranded to Gemini after one embarrassing year
AI-Generated NFTs
Two bubbles burst at once: AI art became free, NFTs became worthless
Rabbit R1
A $200 Android app in an orange plastic box
Jasper AI
ChatGPT ate their lunch, breakfast, and dinner
Stability AI
Open-sourced the product, couldn't monetize the mission
Replika
Lobotomized by regulators, abandoned by users who loved it too much
Amazon Alexa AI
$10 billion per year to hear 'Sorry, I don't know that'