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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and firms that didn’t make it
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Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely in August.
Key facts
- It raised $150 million at a $1 billion valuation in 2023
- Figgs AI operated from 2023 to 2024, letting users create and interact with customizable AI characters for role-play and storytelling
- When Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024, an improved Siri was one of the highlighted features
- Character.ai barred under-18 users from open-ended chats late last year and agreed to settle several of the suits, along with Google, in early 2026
Summary
More recently, chatbot platform Character.ai filed for bankruptcy five years after launching. Aside from Character.ai and Relay, plenty of AI bets never even survive inside the companies that build them. The result is a growing AI graveyard. Even the biggest players aren’t immune.