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Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely on Monday. 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.
Relay — a startup outpaced by bigger platforms — is one version of the story playing out right now. But 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.
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.