Dead AI other products.
$620M of capital across this category
AI products that do not slot neatly into the other categories. IBM Watson Health, Element AI, Vicarious, Mighty, Google Stadia, Bench. Brain-inspired robotics, enterprise services, cloud gaming with ML features, AI-augmented bookkeeping. The deaths here vary, but the pattern beneath them does not: a high-burn product trying to defend a valuation set during cheaper times.
Bench
2012 - 2024An online bookkeeping service that pitched itself as AI-augmented bookkeeping for small businesses.
$113M raised · 13 years aliveGoogle Stadia
2019 - 2023Google's cloud gaming platform, marketed around machine-learning features for streaming and game development.
Undisclosed raised · 4 years aliveMighty
2019 - 2022A cloud-streamed Chromium browser that ran Chrome on remote servers to free up local laptop resources.
Undisclosed raised · 4 years aliveVicarious
2010 - 2022A long-horizon AI research startup building brain-inspired models for industrial robotics and visual reasoning.
$250M raised · 12 years aliveElement AI
2016 - 2021A Montreal-based enterprise AI services company building custom machine learning solutions for large companies.
$257M raised · 4 years alive