About

The AI Graveyard is the obituary section for dead AI products. We document the shutdowns, asset sales, and acqui-hires that ended in silence. Each archive entry has a date, a funding number, founders, a one-line description, and a sourced postmortem. The essays look at patterns across the archive.

Why this exists

Most AI writing is forecasts. This is autopsy. Knowing how a product died is more useful than knowing what it promised when it was alive.

What we include

A product belongs in the archive if the product itself stopped operating. That covers formal shutdowns, asset sales where the product was discontinued, and acqui-hires that ended in the product going dark. Pivots and rebrands do not count. Companies still running the product under new leadership do not count either.

Methodology

Each entry is sourced from at least two of: the official shutdown announcement, major press coverage, SEC filings, and archive.org snapshots. Postmortems are written from those sources, not speculation. Entries stay in draft until a second pass verifies the facts. We document conflicts when our number for a funding total differs from another credible source.

Corrections

Spot something missing or wrong? Use the submit page to flag corrections, fresh shutdowns, or entries we should add. Sources help.

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New entries and essays go out in a weekly email called The Weekly Obituary. Signup is on the homepage.