Relay是作为Zapier的替代品而建立的AI动力工作流程自动化工具，于8月完全关闭。 该产品允许用户使用AI agents实现电子邮件和任务工作流程的自动化，但随着OpenAI,Google等更大型的平台将类似的自动化直接建入了自己的工具中，5岁的Relay挣扎着坚持一个作为独立产品存在的理由。
最近，Chatbot平台Charlie.ai在发布刚过五年就申请破产。
除了Charlie.ai和Relay之外，许多AI的赌注甚至连建造它们的公司都无法生存。 根据S&P全球市场情报，大约42%的AI倡议最终被其公司家长所放弃。 原因各不相同：资金不足，技术挑战，竞争，缩放难度，或仅仅是用户需求薄弱。
结果是AI墓地在不断增长。 以下是一些最出名的AI产品，起动企业，发布，以及已经关闭，支点，或严重错过预期的下注。 比起记录这些尝试(希望)能教给其他行业的人
OpenAI摔倒了好几次
即使是最大的球员也无法幸免。 OpenAI是世界上最有价值的私人公司之一，在伤亡和失误方面有自己的份额。 最近的例子之一是它试图把ChatGPT变成更广泛的“超级应用”。 7月9日，OpenAI更新了该应用，将几个经验结合起来，包括单独的"Chat","Codex"和"Work"模式，同时将传统，熟悉的版本更名为"ChatGPT Classic".
重新设计迅速从用户中引来批评，他们发现新界面混乱而杂乱，OpenAI在不久后将更改回滚，将熟悉的ChatGPT界面带回。
这并非OpenAI唯一试图将一切拉入一个屋顶。 公司也关闭了多款独立应用软件，并将其特性直接折叠为ChatGPT，这个策略比重新设计时做得更好。 ChatGPT 坐标阿特拉斯是一个独立的AI动力网络浏览器，持续了不到一年才于8月9日被停用，其最有用的功能被吸收到ChatGPT.
公司对操作员做了同样的事情，一个AI agent可以浏览网页并代表用户完成任务，而OpenAI越来越多地将图像生成直接建入了ChatGPT，缩小了DALL-E作为自己创建图像的独立目的地的作用。
我们也不能忘记它的视频分享平台Sora
Apple的西里语AI
当2024年的Apple 发布 Apple Intelligence时，改进了的Siri是突出特征之一。 该投出承诺一个Siri能够理解背景，了解整个应用程序发生的情况，并有效完成任务。
然而，Apple一再推后了新"Siri"的出道，以工程问题和bug等各种原因为例。 这一延迟最终促成了超过声称的2.5亿美元结算，涉及Apple如何营销iPhone 16的AI能力。
Siri AI今年7月终于出现在了iOS 27 β中，新的AI动力版本本月首先向英语用户推出；其他语言的支持预计将随之而来。
Microsoft的回忆
宣布在其2024年的Build开发者大会上，将Microsoft的召回功能投放为Windows个人电脑的AI动力"相机记忆"，定期取取取用户正在做的事情的截图，以便日后通过自己的数字历史检索回。
可以预测，这一宣布立即引发了对隐私和安全的反弹。 批评者认为，“召回”可以建立一个可搜索的高度敏感信息的档案，包括密码、私人信息、财务细节和其他活动。 Microsoft将该功能延迟了近一年，让公司有时间重新考虑其安全和隐私保护。
即使重新设计之后，争议仍未消失。 一名网络安全研究者最近建立了一个工具，可以提取和显示Recall所俘获的数据，重新提出了Microsoft是否确实解决了根本问题的问题。
Notion 邮件
Notion Mail 发布于2025年4月作为AI聚焦的电子邮件产品，旨在帮助用户组织并实现收件箱自动化。 然而，该公司注意到其用户正在使用单独的AI agents来处理他们的电子邮件收件箱。 因此，Notion Mail计划于9月22日关闭。
人道 AI Pin
Humane AI Pin可能是AI硬件中最出名的失败之一。 Humane 融资 2.3亿美元通过可穿戴设备而不是传统的智能手机提供AI的特性，从投资者那里获得显著关注。
但产品与性能激烈地挣扎，当Humane警告客户因为潜在的电池起火风险而停止使用其充电箱时，情况恶化了。 Humane随后于2025年2月关闭了AI Pin业务，该公司的大部分资产被HP以1.16亿美元的价格关闭了收购。
兔子 R1
兔子R1是另一个被严重打乱的AI装置。 发布于2024年1月出道于CES,AI lap被设计为代表其所有者执行任务。 兔子称在发布之后不久售出10万个单元。
然而，强劲的起步销售并不表示它是一种强劲的产品。 早期的审查认为该装置未完成，性能不可靠，有用的整合数量有限。
但公司并未放弃。 它继续更新R1，将其定位为能够执行代理任务的计算机控制器。 它最近还推出了一个新的硬件项目宣布，称为“Cyberdeck项目”，目的是创建一个为气相编码而建造的便携式设备。
高级
Huxe是一个AI音频应用，由Google的NotebookLM的前开发者所建造，将书面信息转化为对话，播客风格的音频。
公司于2026年5月倒闭，部分由于更大的平台开始向大量现有受众提供类似的经验。 例如，Spotify一直在扩展自己的AI动力音频工具。
对
Yupp是一个有趣的AI产品：一个免费的游乐场，用户可以同时比较数百个AI模型的响应。 用户还可以就答复进行表决，并通过平台赚取密码货币。
在其高峰期，该平台允许用户测试超过800个型号，包括来自OpenAI,Google，和Anthropic等公司。 但据其创始人说，YUP从未取得足够强大的产品市场来生存。 该站台于2026年3月停用。
费格斯大赦国际
Figgs AI运营于2023至2024年，让用户创作并和自定义的AI角色互动，用于角色扮演和故事讲述。 据报道，该平台吸引了100多万用户，但其开发者称保持免费服务变得过于昂贵，无法维持，他们关闭了该平台。
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Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely in August. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar automation directly into their own tools, five-year-old Relay struggled to hold on to a reason to exist as a stand-alone product.
More recently, chatbot platform Character.ai filed for bankruptcy just five years after launching.
Aside from Character.ai and Relay, plenty of AI bets never even survive inside the companies that build them. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, about 42% of AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned by their corporate parents. The reasons vary: insufficient funding, technical challenges, competition, difficulty scaling, or just weak user demand.
The result is a growing AI graveyard. Below is a look at some of the most notable AI products, startups, launches, and bets that have shut down, pivoted, or significantly missed expectations. Think of it less as a scorecard of flops than as a record of what these attempts can (hopefully) teach the rest of the industry.
OpenAI has taken several stumbles
Even the biggest players aren’t immune. OpenAI, one of the most valuable private companies in the world, has had its own share of casualties and missteps. One of the more recent examples was its attempt to turn ChatGPT into a broader “super app.” On July 9, OpenAI updated the app to combine several experiences, including separate “Chat,” “Codex,” and “Work” modes, while renaming the traditional, familiar version “ChatGPT Classic.”
The redesign quickly drew criticism from users who found the new interface confusing and cluttered, and OpenAI rolled back the change soon after, bringing the familiar ChatGPT interface back.
That wasn’t OpenAI’s only attempt to pull everything under one roof. The company has also shut down several stand-alone apps and folded their features directly into ChatGPT — a strategy that’s worked out better than the redesign did. ChatGPT Atlas, a stand-alone AI-powered web browser, lasted less than a year before being discontinued on August 9, with its most useful features absorbed into ChatGPT.
The company did the same thing with Operator, an AI agent that could browse the web and complete tasks on a user’s behalf, and OpenAI has increasingly built image generation directly into ChatGPT, shrinking the role of DALL-E as its own separate destination for creating images.
We also can’t forget its video-sharing platform, Sora, which struggled with high operating costs and user-retention challenges and shut down in March 2026.
Apple’s Siri AI
When Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024, an improved Siri was one of the highlighted features. The pitch promised a Siri that could understand context, know what was happening across apps, and get tasks done effectively.
However, Apple repeatedly pushed back the release of the new Siri, citing various reasons like engineering issues and bugs. This delay eventually contributed to a $250 million settlement over claims regarding how Apple marketed the AI capabilities of the iPhone 16.
Siri AI finally appeared in the iOS 27 beta this past July, with the new AI-powered version rolling out to English-language users first this month; support for other languages is expected to follow.
Microsoft’s Recall
Announced at its 2024 Build developer conference, Microsoft’s Recall feature was pitched as an AI-powered “photographic memory” for Windows PCs, periodically taking screenshots of what a user was doing so they could later search back through their own digital history.
Predictably, the announcement triggered an immediate backlash over privacy and security. Critics argued that Recall could create a searchable archive of highly sensitive information, including passwords, private messages, financial details, and other activity. Microsoft delayed the feature for nearly a year, giving the company time to rethink its security and privacy protections.
Even after a redesign, the controversy hasn’t gone away. A cybersecurity researcher recently built a tool that could extract and display data that Recall had captured, reviving questions about whether Microsoft has actually fixed the underlying problem.
Notion Mail
Notion Mail launched in April 2025 as an AI-focused email product designed to help users organize and automate their inboxes. However, the company noticed its users were using separate AI agents to handle their email inboxes instead. As a result, Notion Mail is scheduled to shut down on September 22.
Humane AI Pin
The Humane AI Pin is probably one of the most well-known failures in AI hardware. Designed to provide AI features through a wearable device rather than a traditional smartphone, Humane raised $230 million from investors and garnered significant attention.
But the product struggled mightily with performance, and the situation worsened when Humane warned customers to stop using its charging case because of a potential battery fire risk. Humane then shut down its AI Pin business in February 2025, with most of the company’s assets acquired by HP for $116 million.
Rabbit R1
The Rabbit R1 was another heavily hyped AI device. Unveiled at CES in January 2024, the AI companion was designed to perform tasks on behalf of its owner. Rabbit said it had sold 100,000 units shortly after launch.
However, strong initial sales didn’t mean it was a strong product. Early reviews described the device as unfinished, with unreliable performance and a limited number of useful integrations.
The company hasn’t given up, though. It has continued updating the R1, positioning it as a computer controller capable of performing agentic tasks. It also recently announced a new hardware project, dubbed “Project Cyberdeck,” aimed at creating a portable device built for vibe-coding.
Huxe
Huxe was an AI audio app, built by former developers of Google’s NotebookLM, that turned written information into conversational, podcast-style audio.
The company shut down in May 2026, partly as larger platforms began offering similar experiences to large existing audiences. For instance, Spotify has been expanding its own AI-powered audio tools.
Yupp
Yupp was an interesting AI product: a free playground that allowed users to compare responses from hundreds of AI models side by side. Users could also vote on responses and earn cryptocurrency through the platform.
At its peak, the platform let users test more than 800 models, including from companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. But according to its founders, Yupp never achieved strong enough product-market fit to survive. The platform shut down in March 2026.
Figgs AI
Figgs AI operated from 2023 to 2024, letting users create and interact with customizable AI characters for role-play and storytelling. The platform reportedly drew more than 1 million users, but its developers said keeping the service free became too expensive to sustain, and they shut it down.
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