Dead AI agent products.
$519M of capital across this category
AI agents - software meant to act on a user's behalf, take steps, complete tasks. The category that has been five years from working since 2014. Adept ($415M, founders to Amazon), x.ai's Amy and Andrew (a decade too early on model quality), Amazon Astro for Business (bricked after ten months), GameOn (collapsed in a $60 million fraud).
Amazon Astro for Business
2023 - 2024A roving security-guard version of Amazon's Astro home robot, sold to small businesses.
Undisclosed raised · 1 year aliveGameOn
2014 - 2024A sports-focused AI chatbot platform that powered fan conversations for the NBA, Arsenal, and the Las Vegas Raiders.
$60M raised · 11 years aliveAdept AI
2022 - 2024An agent startup training large models to operate existing software and APIs on behalf of knowledge workers.
$415M raised · 2 years alivex.ai (Amy and Andrew)
2014 - 2021AI scheduling assistants Amy and Andrew Ingram that handled meeting coordination over email, one of the first widely deployed autonomous agent products. Not the Elon Musk xAI.
$44M raised · 8 years alive